About me

Collaborators/featurings/exhibitions: Diesel, Pictoplasma, Institut Bernard Magrez, Urban Spree, Noisey (Vice Magazine), Cultura, Collective Arts Brewing, Stickerbomb, Behance Curated Galleries (Adobe), Bordeaux, Inkygoodness, ∞ Combining traditional and digital magic to create pop surrealist and psychedelic hybrids of intimate and collective mythologies (dreams and emotions, as much as quantum physics, or philosophy), I leave indeterminacy areas for the viewer's own mythology to resonate freely with it.  I have extensively explored creativity, through drawing, painting, sculpture, music, graphic design, animated GIFs, photo, storytelling, sculpting and research. As an artist and illustrator, I do my best to breach through the viewer's rational mind, and widen that gate to the things on which words slip, but that feelings can describe. Feel free to contact me  :)

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Projects

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  Essence MThis year, Mickey celebrates his 90th birthday! In collaboration with Disney France and Quai 36, I had the pleasure to make the iconic mouse my own. The work will adorn the walls of Bordeaux, with over 30 Mickeys hiding in the city. The same event, with other local artists, takes place in Paris, Lyon and Marseille. The most active city in the Mickey hunting, measured via #mickey90 and #Bordeaux, will win an exclusive Disney event to celebrate even more this birthday.
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  PsychædelightsVarious psychedelic, surreal, colorful and oneiric illustrations, art and animated GIFs for personal projects such as art prints, a card game design, editorial illustrations and a book cover.
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  Geometrical山よ , a polygonal wanderlust amidst the mountains. Looking good on everything (the beer is a limited Artist Beer produced as part of Collective Arts Brewery's Series 9 (Toronto)):

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Work history

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Artist / Illustrator / CreativeJæn
Oct 2007Bordeaux, FranceFreelance
http://jaen.art/timeline

Skills

• Illustration
• Art
• Animated Gif
• Gif Animation
• Digital art
• Character Design
• Digital Illustration
• Creative Thinking
• Adobe Photoshop
• Creating Stories

Education

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MasterclassPictoplasma Academy
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015Berlin, Germany
Character Design & Art Masterclass - character design & exploration, sculpture, storyboarding, etc.
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One-year Exchange ProgramNagoya University of Foreign Studies 名古屋外国語大学
Sep 2008 - Jul 2009Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Japanese & international studies

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Awards

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3rd PrizeLes Vibrations Urbaines de Pessac
French national urban art contest, 3rd place with a sculptures on selfies and smartphone addiction: http://jaen.art/autohypnum