Born in Brive-la-Gaillarde in 1933, Jean-Baptiste Valadié is a painter, sculptor, engraver, draftsman, lithographer and illustrator. He started at Cours Charpentier in Montparnasse, and studied applied arts for four years to graduate in 1955. With his pencil, the designer will not stop in parallel to go to Place du Tertre to sketch sketches.
"It is first of all the fantasy, the dream, the irrationality and the sensuality that the work of art is born," says the artist. His works offer the sweetness of a dream or a "Venetian dream", as the title of one of his lithographs expresses. Grace hangs under the stroke of a pencil and raises the plastic harmony. His "Laziness" reaches its fullness, and his "Harmony" opens towards the infinite horizons of reverie.
Insatiable vagabond, he presents his first exhibition in Dakar (Senegal), and continues with an exhibition in Algiers during his military service in 1960. The exhibitions flourish in France (Paris, Cannes, Lyon) and internationally: South Africa , England, Australia, United States, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium ...