Jacques Maupas

Jacques Maupas is a self-taught oil painter whose practice developed alongside a separate professional career, with intensive periods of painting interspersed with breaks. Inspired by his mother's example, he began working seriously with oil painting in his thirties and has focused exclusively on his art since retiring in 2016. Maupas concentrates on the human figure, especially female portraits and nudes, using the medium to study facial features and subtle expressions. Drawing from personal responses to each subject—ranging from the elegance of a ballerina to the everyday irony of daily life—he employs contrasts of light and detailed anatomy to evoke a direct emotional presence in his figurative compositions.