Michel Le Goff French Visual Artist

Presentation of the 2011 Songlines Series by Michel Le Goff, acrylic on paper, now in Australia New South Wales. The French painter Le Goff has lived on the island of Hydra Greece for decades and now tours Australasia. His work inspired by Celtic and Aboriginal art explores randomness as a visual medium to contemplation and induction of peace of mind. Just follow the curves of these chromatic songs to travel.


About MLG:

"I was born on the hill of Saint Cloud, overlooking Paris and its lights. 

As a young adolescent I spent hours at my window staring at the play of light and meandering chromatic pulsation of the French capital. 

My work reflects now my overall concept of meandering chromatic motion, flux and complexity in the sense of Heraclitus and entropy in art. The "déjà vu" is an abuse of the senses. The flow of my life never let me step twice in the same river nor in the same situation, so does my art.

Originally, I had been influenced in my work by the French artist Georges Mathieu who I used to meet in Saint Cloud. His series on the theme of the Battles of Turenne were for me a starting point of my  subsequent evolution in painting. I departed from his thick tube impasto for speed and fluidity and I never yielded to fashionable messy drippings which I consider to be an easy brainless shortcut to sensationalism in art. I couldn't avoid also being influence by my ancestral Breton Celtic origin whose meandering art engraved on granite stones at Gavrinis has always fascinated me since my tender age.

To summarize my philosophy of life and art, I always like to refer to the unavoidable movements of the Hydra of the legend. I live in it and on it."

Our small & fragile World
Counting Start 9 September 2011