Jérémy Boulard Le Fur

A French artist born in 1986, Jérémy Boulard Le Fur lives and works in Paris. His current work explores colored matter through large-format colored pencil drawings, drawing on the captivating power of giant waves, frozen between liquid and solid.

A surfer and illustrator, he is fascinated by strange shapes and unpredictable movements: a wave can touch him like a cross-eyed dog—clumsy yet deeply moving. For him, this distortion resonates with the movement of fur, hair, or a coat—living forms in perpetual motion, in rhythm with the waves.

The repetition of the stroke—always traced in the direction of the current—physically engages the artist for long hours, plunging him into a state of meditative trance similar to his surfing practice. Through successive, layered strokes of colored pencil, charcoal, graphite, or oil pastel, he creates textures and lighting effects that suggest oily, metallic, or organic materials. The polychromy of his works echoes psychedelic surf imagery—multicolored reflections, mirror-distorting water, incandescent skies—for an almost hallucinatory experience, far beyond the cliché of the "pretty Hawaiian wave."

Alongside this series on waves, he pursues personal work centered on the relationship between the human and animal worlds, imbued with the grotesque, as well as a career in animation: a 2009 graduate of the ENSAD animation cinema department (graduation film Troublantes caresses, featuring puppets and pixilation), he has since worked in stop motion, advertising, and short films.