If there is an artist who completely dedicates his career to his city, it is well of the Fecamp native painter François Burel that we speak of, whose works, all techniques included, are devoted to his environment from the Pays de Caux, of which numerous paintings are perfumed with delicious and exhilarating sea air.

All these sensations are the fruit of a remarkable unity of conception, as much by the movement, under a harmonious structure accentuated by sublime verticals and spaces altered with expertise while beautiful effects rhythm the production of this goldsmith of light.

No hesitation, nor insipidness in François Burel’s work. Only a luminous poetry reflects the vitality of the marinas and the shores in large compositions which the artist can decorate with relish with the roundness of reassuring female presences. His gestural instinct comes very close to abstraction sometimes, but his bright and enthusiastic love for the living beings and the sceneries brings him back to his luminous blue, to his generous glimmer of gold and fire, full of sensitivity and harmony, of research and reflections.

Accordingly, François Burel represents devotion to painting in the most sincere and structured way that one can find in this brilliant universe of art.

André RUELLAN, art critic