Félix Girard

Canadian self-taught illustrator and painter, Félix Girand, was born into the artist world. Both mother and father are painters and he spent most of his childhood in a family workshop where he discovered different medias and techniques.

His main subject of choice are fantastical characters that he situates in surrealist backgrounds and landscapes. The strangely distorted character paintings all share similar warm hues and palette, which I thought was perfectly fitting to blog about on this wild and wet day.

There is something very fable about his style and when researching him I've read somewhere that he takes inspiration from comic books and illustrators such as Brian Froud but has lately become influenced by Renaissance painters such as Brueghel, Bosch, Dürer and Vermeer.