Claude Le Roy
Born in 1936 in Oran (Algeria), from a French father and a Spanish mother, I lived there until 1959. After marine school and various jobs, I became a custom officer in France, from 1959 to 1992.
In the time I was building my house in Alsace, I had an artistic impulse in 1977, so I started painting without having done any art school. My first exhibition took place in Basel in 1983.

Some of my paintings are now in Paris, Chicago, Basel, Zürich, Geneva, Vaduz, La Chaux-de-Fonds which are a part of many collections: the one from Bègles called "Fonds de la Création Brute et Inventive", another one from Lapalisse called "l’art en marche", or the one from Lausanne museum called "La Nouvelle Invention", as well as 31 letters with Jean Dubuffet.

In 2010, I started an abstract work called "CONVENTIONS and PENDULARS". It was the beginning of my work with the pendulum. This structure of perpendicular and longitudinal lines' network in arcs, starting from the four edges of the support to work, without any ruler. All the forms are curved.
The colors are chosen with the pendulum, the background is visible on different works but not on others. Over the last seven years, I realized 150 works. I use to work standing in front of a table of 1,40 m. x 0, 90 m. My work is always signed Le Roy. Previously I signed my works ElRoy.


 Quotations
 - Eager to explore everything, ignoring all dogmatism and all schools, El Roy entered into abstraction and becomes Le Roy, obeying the inner forces that lead his mind and his hand to trace unexpected geometrical worlds, in a joyful and liberatory laugh … (Mifa Pivot- Smigielski, journalist).

  -« For years I had a dice in my pocket and it answered my questions » (Gottfried Honegger, November 2003) … To that, Claude Le Roy adds « for me it is my pendulum »

 -« Coincidence has become for me the light that opened my soul to the miracle of life » (Gottfried Honegger).

 - « Only those who constantly destroy themselves, in order to rebuilt themselves, achieve novelty and truth » (Mondrian – Centre Pompidou)

 - « Art doesn’t mean assimilation of memories, but change and realization of new things » (Gottfried Honegger)