artist/ David de Lossy

Belgique

Ghislain David de Lossy have been photographer for as long as they can remember. Ghislain has applied his sense of imagery and the instantaneous to a unique graphic technique of his own: he literally “sketches” animals, drawing them blindly with a pencil, while his eye, fixed to his telescope, intrudes upon the intimacy of models who remain unaware of the artist’s attention, even from considerable distances. Upon returning home, he enhances his sketches with watercolor.

With his perfect mastery of line, his economy of means, and the synthetic simplicity of his layout, Ghislain David de Lossy’s drawings undoubtedly bear resemblance to Japanese calligraphy, that consummate art of conveying everything in a single stroke, much like a few words in a haiku. His art pays homage to the great masters of printmaking, from Utamaro and Hokusai to Foujita.

The technique thus belongs to the realm of observational drawing, but not the slow, descriptive, and academic kind. What characterizes our artist is speed, the lightning-fast ability to capture, in a fraction of a second, the ever-changing postures of his feathered models—be they sullen, surprised, mocking, mischievous, or predatory. And when it comes to speed, the falcon certainly knows a thing or two!