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Jean-Pierre Dubord

 

Jean-Pierre Dubord was born in Rouen, France in 1949 and has spent most of his life there. He studied Art History and Decorative Arts in a two year course at the Louvre in Paris but is largely a self-taught artist.


His first exhibition of thirty oils in Rouen in 1970 was favorably reviewed by the critics. In the same year, he completed his studies in Biochemistry and went to work for a pharmaceutical company.  He continued to show his work in galleries and was soon receiving prizes in competitive exhibitions among them an Honorable Mention at the Salon des Artistes Françoise in Paris in 1985.  In 1987, Pierre left his position as a chemist to devote his time to a career in painting.


Dubord is mostly a landscape painter. His delicate canvasses follow the Seine as it winds through Normandy from Paris to the English Channel.  Winter and summer, in light and atmospheric effects that change quickly and constantly, he records village streets, modest dwellings, barge traffic on the river and gardens tended by his fellow Normans.  Reaching the sea, he gives us marvelous studies of water and sky in his harbor scenes and beaches.  Rouen in the fog, blanketed with snow, the views of the surrounding hills, majestic cathedral spires dimly visible in the mist all subjects of inexhaustible interest to Dubord.


Jean-Pierre Dubord’s work has been exhibited throughout France, in Japan and in major exhibitions in galleries across the United States.