Guy Benard

Guy Benard was born in 1928 and belongs to the Rouen school of landscape painters that continued the post-Impressionist tradition of the Seine valley through the second half of the twentieth century. He lives and works at Bois-Guillaume on the heights above Rouen and has exhibited across France, among recent shows ‘Impression d’eau’ at the church of Saint-Rémy in Dieppe and an exhibition at the Château de Bois-Guilbert, both in 2013.

His subjects are the ones that tradition gave him: the Seine and the Eure, Rouen cathedral, gardens in flower, Monet’s garden at Giverny, village streets, farmyard birds, still lifes of fruit and flowers, and the landscapes of Provence, Les Baux and Gordes, which he painted on his journeys south.

He works in oil with a loaded brush and a bright, high-keyed palette, dabbing in blossom and broom with pure colour and leaving skies thin and luminous. His paintings are regularly offered in French regional sales and by dealers in France and abroad.