Jean-Pierre Craninx is an emerging abstract painter, who is keen on black monochromatic painting.
He was born on the first of June 1965 in Waremme, near Liege in Belgium.
Besides a multitude of improvement training courses in various painting techniques, he owns a Masters degree from the High School of fine arts Saint Luc of Liege, in plastic, visual and spatial arts.
He once taught design and practiced diverse jobs. As of now, he fully commits to abstract painting.
His main reference is Pierre Soulages but also, in second instance: James Austin Murray, Gerhard Richter or else Giancarlo Bargoni.
He imposes himself no technical constraints to create “his” blacks. The acrylic is primarily used but also the epoxy, the oil, the polyester, the mineral coats…
The structured effects of matters are the subjects of a particular attention in his art.
As such, he can put very distinct blacks in vibration side by side.
His work is really “artypical” as, for the artist, the light, is an integral part of the oeuvre and participates in its endless multiplication.