Eric Roux-Fontaine

Eric Roux-Fontaine develops his pictorial research as a sensory and visionary journey, an odyssey between myth and memory, where color becomes a vehicle of narration and revelation. His painting draws from transfigured realities and inner landscapes, conceived as thresholds between visible and invisible worlds.

His canvases, dense with symbols and cultural references, unfold as fragments of a permanent rêverie, suspended narratives between dream and history, between traversed places and interiorized worlds. Within them, the painterly gesture echoes a primordial energy, capable of transforming matter into emotion, nature into myth, and memory into color.

Roux-Fontaine’s artistic practice is shaped by a continuous movement between the silence of the studio and the exploration of the world. His long journeys—from India to Central America—become profound quests for meaning, immersions into Romani cultures, rituals, and mythologies inhabiting the lands he crosses.

From these experiences emerge layered works imbued with spirituality, where each element appears to belong to a geography of the soul. Painting becomes an act of emotional transmutation, an alchemy that distills beauty from the world and restores it in visual form.

A multidisciplinary artist, Roux-Fontaine has collaborated with writers and musicians, expanding his practice into graphic novels and visual storytelling. His travel diaries, such as Rajasthan: A Journey to the Romani Origins, and the volume inspired by Kipling’s The Jungle Book, reflect a poetic language grounded in travel, myth, and memory.

In 2024, the documentary Dépaysage by Pierre Gadrey explored his visual universe, offering an intimate perspective on his painting as an act of transformation and revelation.

Eric Roux-Fontaine was born in 1966 and lives and works near Versailles. After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts of Saint-Étienne, he was invited in 1995 to exhibit his works among the Italian Primitives at the Museum of Fine Arts of Chambéry.

He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in France and internationally, including New York, Boston, Miami, London, Paris, and Brussels. His works are included in important public and private collections, such as the Paul Dini Museum, the AIB Foundation in Ireland, and Chase Bank in New York.

Roux-Fontaine paints as one who preserves and reveals, creating places of the soul for those still capable of wonder. Canvas after canvas, he invites the viewer to inhabit marvel and contemplation.