Just came back from a 10-day holiday in Portugal with a few hundred pictures on my camera. I bought a Canon Ixus 100 IS for the occasion which has produced some rather stunning results I must say.  The 12 megapixels really go well with the focus on this little machine. For such a small thing this camera makes for very sharp images, amazingly even when just using one hand. And although video geeks say these photo cameras are made for photos (just as phones are made for phone calls), the 16:9 aspect ratio is not bad at all for the occasional moving image. I do miss the different angles at which I could put the screen of my old 5 Megapixel Casio Exilim which I bought at least 6 years ago. I could take pictures from the most impossible angles with this. But I guess I dropped it a few times too often, the pictures it made in the end looked like 1 Megapixel pictures stretched out to larger size. Ah well, I guess you can’t have everything in life.

Some pictures made the past month.

Every once in a while an artist stands out from the crowd. He/she brings something to the creative sphere which begs for the stories behind the beauty. Therefore, this blog will present a series of interviews which try to unveil the roots of creativity. Enjoy.

• Full name: Simon Goinard Phelipot
• Age: 26
• Country: France (Orsay)
• Profession: Illustrator | Art director
• Website: Resonance-Art.com

It’s taken some time for you to feature in our interview series seeing the enormous amount of work you’ve been facing lately. Can you show us some recent works and the story behind each of them?

Sure, I’d love to. The painting below represents Amon, a character from an animated short which is currently under production. The story is based on the idea of ‘travel through matter’ and consists of a series of portraits like this one.

This is the cover for the second episode of the Ma’at comic book series published in France.

Chrestomathy, a cover done for a book collective of some really nice artists.

What are the 3 key words or themes which you want to express through your art?

Sensualism, Matter and Tension between abstraction and figuratism.

If not an artist, what job would you have?

It could have been nice to have Socrates or Epikuros‘ job in the Agora.

What should every beginning artist definitely (not) do?

You should try to know who you are, and should not try to get a style, you are your style, just be yourself.

How long does it take to create one piece of art?

A good piece of Art : a life.

Is there anything bizarre or weird which helps you to be creative? e.g. mud baths?

Chateau Figeac or Chateau la Tour (all good St-Emilion wines in fact…)

If you had to choose: color or form?

You know this question is just as masochistic as choosing to cut your arms or your legs,right?

Which art tools would you take with you when moving to the moon?

My mind i think.

Favourite book?

On the Nature of Things by Lucretius.

Who’s been a great inspiration to you and your work?

Kandinsky, for his visionary mind and for the lucidity of his work.