Thierry France Pey

Thierry France Pey, contemporary visual artist, was born in Vaucluse and lives in Avignon, his beloved city. After 25 years in the world of decorative publishing, he founded l'Écho des Expos Dakar, an observatory dedicated to visual artists in the Senegalese capital. Following this rich journey, he chose to fully dedicate himself to his artistic practice: drawing and painting. His work has been featured in several major events, including the Dakar Biennale, Mare Nostrum (Beaucaire), and the Arteastic Gallery (Avignon).

Between bold surrealism and figurative abstraction, Thierry France Pey develops a singular universe inhabited by hybrid creatures: beings with bird, rabbit, or rhinoceros heads, wandering through mental landscapes and the wastelands of our forgotten dreams. His characters are neither fully human nor fully animal — they smoke cigarettes, meditate, or silently roam, on the edge of reality and imagination.

A painter of buried dreams and silent emotions, Thierry France Pey defines himself as a reporter of the inner world, an explorer of dreamlike depths. His style is defined by a mixed media technique, combining natural pigments, oil paints, and pastels, in the service of a free and resolutely contemporary expression.