Éric Alibert

Éric Alibert (born 1958) is a French painter, specialising in nature and animals. He is also the author of books dedicated to several important natural sites of the world. He uses watercolour, oil, acrylic as well as other techniques including the use of gold leaves.

His works are inspired by regions such as the main European national parks, as well as Syria, Namibia, Venezuela and Japan. There is also an influence of poetic sources, such as Philippe Jaccottet, Novalis and Marguerite Yourcenar and of plastic artists like Soulages, Viollet-le-Duc and Rembrandt Bugatti, to whom Alibert dedicated .

Éric Alibert received the gold medal of the "artistes animaliers français ([http://www.artistes-animaliers.com/?page_id=125 (ref.)]), has been awarded by the Fondation de la Vocation and is member of the U.S. Guild of Natural Science Illustrators.

His works have been displayed in several exhibitions, including in the Museum d'histoire naturelle of Paris and of Geneva. There are owned by private and public collections. In 2012, the Castle of Saint-Maurice, Valais, Switzerland organises an important exposition of his most recent creations : [http://www.expochateau.ch/ Exhibition "Regards croisés Orient-Occident autour d'Eric Alibert"] Provided by Wikipedia