PH GUIGNARD
FINE ART
Art Is A Pretext.
For what? For pausing. For recognizing yourself in unfamiliar forms. For finding beauty or meaning where you weren't looking.
The photographies & paintings presented here began as personal investigations but become something else in your presence. Coastal light and atmospheric states mirroring inner weather. Archetypal figures calling on your imagination.
Each work a doorway. See for yourself and let them resonate.
For what you will find goes beyond what you see.
Mirages and Reflections
A visual investigation of promises and disappearance. These photographs capture phenomena that seem to offer certainty—heart-shaped suns at dawn, perfect symmetries in water—only to dissolve with the changing light.
The series explores both the seductive nature of illusion and the clarity that emerges when we see things as they truly are.
Haze
Photographs of transition and emergence. This ongoing series captures atmospheric states where familiar forms dissolve into mist, where light filters through uncertainty to reveal unexpected beauty.
These images document the territory between what was and what might be—landscapes transformed by fog into spaces of possibility.
Intensities
Monochrome studies that push emotion to its extremes. By removing color, these photographs amplify contrast and drama—storm systems become emotional weather, architectural elements transform into psychological markers, light and shadow engage in stark dialogue.
When feeling demands bold expression, when subtlety won't suffice, these images speak through pure tonal force.
Archetypes
These paintings investigate universal narratives through chromatic intensity and physical gesture.
Drawing from mythology and collective memory, each work strips archetypal themes—strength, descent, sacrifice, transformation—down to their emotional essence.
The specific references serve only as starting points; what remains is pure chromatic energy, layered texture, and the visceral evidence of psychological force rendered through pigment.