Olivier Longuet

Olivier Longuet was born in France in 1975 and moved to Ireland in 1998. He has now set up his workshop in Kinvara Co.Galway. Self taught, he was initiated to drawing and painting at a young age from both his Mother and Grand Father. Since then, Olivier has worked on a wide variety of mediums such as watercolors, markers, pastels, oils and acrylics, knives and now does most of his work using oil on canvas as well as acrylics on a variety of supports such as surfboards, vans, drift wood or walls.

Olivier’s current work grew out of the desire to use simple shapes to represent the complex stances of human body in action, directly reflecting his love for the French tradition of comics strips and cartoons (France, and even more so, Angouleme is most famous for it’s International Comics Festival).

He has exibited in various galleries around Ireland and counts customers such as Brendan Gleeson, Sean Tyrrell, Jim McKee and musician Gavin Whelan

Olivier Longuet Gallery