Patrick Allaert

I was born in 1949 in a mining country, in the North of France.
Photographer in Lille from 1971 until 1993.
In 1993, he decides, with his wife, to leave everything to settle down in a quite small village of the Creuse where he buys a former farm and restores it completely in mind of the region. It is there that he settles his workshop studio : "the Workshop of the Old Oak" with the idea to create, to work on materials. After one period of various researches, he endeavours to work with the light and the matter.
At first, he will use the gourd appreciated as support for its infinitely varied forms and its always different texture. Then will follow eggs of ostrich, emu and of rhea.
In goose eggs, he particularly likes the delicacy of the shell espescially when enlightening them from the inside.

In ostrich egg, he ties to use the thickness of the subject to create volumes, and subtle gradiaton once lit.
As for emu eggs, he works less with the volumes but with the eggceptional blue hues of the egg.

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