Philippe Baudelocque creates wall frescoes on a grand scale.
He uses chalk as the medium for his art. Sometimes based
on preparatory sketches, his art tends to unfold on walls
without improvisation in a flurry of patterns that are
repeated and diffracted within the framework of the main,
oversized subject matter, usually an imaginary creature,
but also abstract affabulations or symbolic morphograms.
The artist draws his inspiration from the history of
iconography (parietal rock art and the first human artworks)
to scientific imagery as well as the so-called hard sciences
such s quantum physics, mathematics and the laws of nature,
which are combined with touch of childlike fantasy when he
sketches his chalk drawings. He first became well known as
a result of his graffiti of imaginary creatures on crumbling
city walls. Many of his frescoes are, of course, temporary
in nature; the idea is that they should be animated rather
than permanent.
He created the illustrations for three Christmas candles
for diptyque featuring a unicorn, dragon and a phoenix,
their respective animals in the zodiac. As these creatures
are also constellations.
