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Alain Senez Alain Senez was born in 1948 in Paris. The family moved to Provence where he was accepted at art school in Aix at the exceptionally young age of 14 on the strength of an outstanding talent. In 1966 he moved back to Paris to study at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts. There he won numerous prizes: for monumental painting, monumental sculpture, architecture, and perspective. At the age of 19, he taught perspective drawing in the school of architecture. In 1968 he won the Grand Prix Rocheron for landscape painting, as well as the Fortin d’Ivry prize awarded by the city of Paris and took part in the competitions organized by the Institute of France. As a competitor in the Prix de Rome for painting, he was admitted as second logiste.

His creative activities were interrupted by military service, which he spent in Africa. On his return, after a spell of teaching in the south of France, he moved north again to Paris in 1974, and thereafter to Belgium, where he immersed himself in a study of the techniques of the Flemish masters. This basic research, which spanned several years, brought him to examine the very foundations of Western figurative art. He set himself the task of acquiring an intimate knowledge of both the composition and the techniques of the great painters of the past, from Titian to Renoir, via Delacroix to Turner. Since then, apart from periods spent in Tuscany and Scotland, he has worked in his studio near Brussels. He has exhibited in France, the UK, Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, Spain, and Switzerland. Collections in Europe, the United States and South America. His overriding artistic concern is the exploration of technique, and the effect of light in particular. His works form part of numerous private collections in Europe, the United States and South America.

Main Solo Exhibitions
Since 1978 in private galleries in the UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. 1992 - the “Berlaymont”, European Commission, Brussels 1993 - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London 2004 - Francis Kyle Gallery, London 2008 - Francis Kyle Gallery, London