Julien Jaca in his studio, France, 2024
"There is the spontaneous gesture, slapping paint onto the canvas. Freely working with textures, materials, gluing fabric on. I like it when a painting triggers something physical as you get closer."
Julien Jaca (1985, Toulouse, France) is an artist and painter, residing and creating in Hossegor, nestled along the captivating Atlantic Coast of South-West France. After completing four years at the Toulouse School of Fine Arts in 2012, he made the bold decision to depart from academic confines and immerse himself fully in his burgeoning career as an international tattoo artist.
His voyages across varied lands have gifted him with profound encounters with the tactile beauty of traditional art forms and craftsmanship, instilling within him a reverence for their inherent honesty and spiritual resonance.
In 2018, an event of profound significance reshaped his journey, both as an individual and as an artist, leaving an enduring imprint captured in one of his seminal works, aptly titled "THE ONLY PICTURE I WILL EVER HAVE OF YOU."
Since then, Jaca has wholeheartedly dedicated himself to the pursuit of artistic expression and pictorial innovation, embarking on an unceasing odyssey that has yielded a diverse oeuvre of drawings, paintings and sculptures.