Antoine de La Boulaye was born in 1951. His career spans three decades, starting with his education at the Ecole Superieur d’Arts Graphiques of the Academie Julian in Paris. Antoine's style evolves constantly, in his search to translate distinctive atmospheres, from the world of horses to that of Spain and the Orient, which have fascinated from an early age. His search has recently lead him to create vivid and colourful images of "staged" scenes, representing elements of real or imaginary riders. These are achieved by following a painstaking process of first painting his subject in a highly finished way before deconstructing it, rubbing and obliterating it and superimposing it with other images. The result is a heightened sense of reality of the movement in motion, if not emotion when representing bullfights.
