As much as a soul reflection than a miror to the culture, Jean François Larrieu paintings are one vision leading to amazement. The public eye immerses itself within his colorful and unexpected universe. Number of his paintings have been inspired through his several travels, reinterpreting places according to his own alphabet.

His Art is flowing with dense urban places such as Manhattan, Hong Kong, Dubaï, Paris and their peculiar atmosphere, setting the complexity of his pieces of Art on fire. Through his pictorial expression, Jean François Larrieu is a direct descendant of Paul Klee and Joan Miro, whose « visual vocabulary is delightful in order to sublimate the real world and reach plastic metamorphosis of one universe where Human remains the central topic of a poetic surreality ».

His favorite topics are trees, reaffirming the roots and absolute necessity of plants, enabling genuine human development and survival. Jean-François Larrieu superimposed forms, creating a knowledgeable and delightful architecture, carrying multi- colored, multicultural, universalists signs. With his powerful and singular language , his landscapes are filled with magical boxes, people and birds, opening a door, an enigmatic path toward the wonders of the known and the unknown, flowing with a musical cadence where imaginary is king.

Since 1982, Jean François Larrieu has led over sixty exhibitions front his own Art as tell as many other collective exhibitions round thé world. From the beginning, his work was exhibited in museum in France and abroad.

Jean François Larrieu chaired the Salon d’Automne de Paris from 1995 until 2004, reviving the past greatness of this prestigious show, chaired before by Renoir, Rodin ,Maillol, Desvallières… He became Chair of Taylor Fundation in May 2010. Funded in 1884 this philanthropical organization aims at improving Arts knowledge. Jean François Larrieu lives and works in Paris and Saint-Jean de Luz.