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Exhibitions, realizations, publications & conferences (selection) |
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2006 |
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I have been invited, with seven other international heraldic artists, at the 27th International Congress of Genealogic and Heraldic Sciences in St Andrews (Scotland) from August 21, 2006 to August 26 for a three days workshop. |
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Publication of my rendition of arms of the dukes of Brittany in the Flemish review “Heraldicum Disputationes “, April-May-June 2006, Homunculus Editions. |
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Formally nominated heraldic painter of the Vlaams Heraldische Raad (Flemish Heraldic Authority), which depend on the Flemish government of Belgium. I realise official letters patent for this institution. |
2005 |
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Creation of coat of arms for two imaginary families for the comic movie of the French actress and moviemaker, Charlotte de Turkheim : “Les aristos” (on the screens in 20th September 2006). |
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Ten sketches in white & black for the armorial bearings of Pope Benedict XVI asked by the Prefect of the Pontifical House. |
2004 |
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Creation of coat of arms of the Cardinal Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyon, Primate of the Gaules. |
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Publication of about fifteen of my designs in the book Heraldiek, Wapens kennenen en herkennen of Honoré Rottier & Marc Van de Cruys, Louvain (Belgium). |
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Sketch of the “ring of the fisherman” for the next pope, asked by Bischop Piero Marini, Master of the liturgical celebrations of the Holly Father. |
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Publication of some of my designs in an article about my work in the review « The New Zealand Armorist », NZ branch of The Heraldry Society. |
2003 |
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Publication of all my bookplates in Contemporary international ex-libris artists of Artur Mário da Mota Miranda, Braga, Portugal 2003. |
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Publication of my composition: “les grands chevaux de Lorraine” (the four noblest families of the duchy of Lorraine) in the book Lunéville, fastes du Versailles lorrain, of Jacques-Charles Gaffiot, Paris 2003. |
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Exhibition in the castle of Vincennes, conference about my work and round table with Michel Pastoureau, Michel Popoff, Hervé Pinoteau, Edouard Secretan. Subject: “Is it possible to create and propose armorial bearings for the France of today?” |
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Publication of my colour plate of the whole coat of arms of all the branches of the old burgess Swiss family Secretan in the book, SECRETAN, Histoire d’une famille lausannoise de 1400 à nos jours of Bernard Secretan, Lausanne 2003. |
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International and exhibition of heraldic art in Brussels. |
2002 |
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Exhibition of my work and several heraldic artists and craftsmen in the show l’Héraldique et les artistes d’aujourd’hui in the lordship of Annevoie (Province of Namur, Southern Belgium), from 8th to 11th May. |
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Cover and cover back of the review “Revue lorraine populaire”, issue of February. |
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Realization of the armorial bearings of The Order of Malta for the Société de l’Histoire et du Patrimoine de l’Ordre de Malte, inspired from the frontispiece of the Rohan Code (1776). |
2001 |
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My membership is approved and based on an artistically and financially application by the Maison des Artistes, the French legal institution for artists social insurances. It gives a specifically social and tax status to independent artists. |
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Creation of my website (an average of more of 50 000 view pages all over the world per year). |
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Illustration by eighteen black & white designs of the article of the French historian and heraldist, Nicolas Vernot « Les allusions politiques dans les armoiries comtoises enregistrées dans l’armorial général de 1696 » (“political allusions in the Franche-Comtée arms registered in the 1996 armorial”) in the heraldic Swiss review Archives Héraldiques Suisses 2001, tome II. |
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Starting of the realization of the second volume of the Armorial des Communes des Hautes-Alpes.The first one was made in 1974 by the prominent French heraldic painter, Robert Louis. Work commissioned by the Société d'Etude des Hautes-Alpes, the Archives départementales and the Conseil Général des Hautes-Alpes. |
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Publication of my creation of the armorial bearings of the Cardinal Billé in the book : Trésor inconnus du Vatican (Unknow treasures of the Vatican) de Bernard Berthod & Pierre Blanchard, Paris 2001. |
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Creation of coat of arms of the Cardinal Billé, Archbishop of Lyon, Primate of the Gaules. |
2000 |
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My first personal exhibition in the town hall of Lyon and also a selection of tokens engraved with the arms of the consuls of Lyon (specially lend by Lyon’s Museum of fine arts) from 1st to 12th February. |
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Creation of a bookplate for the prominent French heraldist Michel Popoff, Curator of the French national Library (department of coins & antiquities) and Secretary of the International Heraldry Academy. |
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Exhibition of my work about the arms of the great French men of quill in the SCRIPTURA show in Lyon from 31st March to 2nd April. |
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Exhibition of my work in the XXIVth international congress of genealogical and heraldic sciences in Besançon (France), May 2000. |
1999 |
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Exhibition and workshop in the SCRIPTURA show (International salon devoted to writing and writing equipment), in Lyon, March 1999. |
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Organization of a day of study in Lyon for the Société Française d’Héraldique et de Sigillographie, June 1999 (visit with the curators of the Library and its heraldic manuscripts, of the Museum of fine arts, of many churches and private houses with heraldic frescoes). |
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Study of heraldic frescoes of the 16th and early 17th centuries on the walls of a palace of the old town of Lyon commissioned by the Direction des Affaire Culturelle de la Région Rhône-Alpes. |
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Exhibition in the VIth Salon du livre d'héraldique et de chevalerie in the Museum of the Légion d'honneur et des Ordres de Chevalerie in Paris, November. |
1998 |
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Article about my work written by Edouard Secretan President of the Société Française d’Héraldique et de Sigillographie « Vers un nouveau style héraldique français » (“Towards a new French heraldic style”), in the prestigious magazine « La Demeure Historique » (magazine of the French owners of historical castles & houses), July. |
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Exhibition and speech in the Vth Salon du livre d'héraldique et de chevalerie in the Museum of the Légion d'honneur et des Ordres de Chevalerie in Paris, December. |
1997 |
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Realization for her 86th birthday of the cipher of Her Imperial & Royal Highness the Countess of Paris, born Princess Orleans and Bragance. |
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Publication of my bookplates in an article of “l’Ex-libris français”, review of the L’Association Française pour la Connaissance des Ex-Libris. This review is regularly publishing my last bookplates. |
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Exhibition and round table, subject: “Heraldry today” with Dr Jean-Claude Loutsch (President of the International Heraldry Academy), Prof. Michel Pastoureau (Practical School of the High Studies in Human Sciences) & Michel Popoff (Curator of the French national Library) IVth Salon du livre d'héraldique et de chevalerie in the Museum of the Légion d'honneur et des Ordres de Chevalerie in Paris, November 1997. |
1996 |
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Exhibition in the IIIrd Salon du livre d'héraldique et de chevalerie in the Museum of the Légion d'honneur et des Ordres de Chevalerie in Paris (book show devoted to heraldry and chivalry), October 1996. |
1995 |
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Exhibition in the XIIIrd national congress of genealogy in Besançon (France), June 1995. |
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Official beginning of my professional activity. |
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