Artist of the day: Artist of the Day, June 4, 2026 : Claude-Max Lochu, a French artist, painter and designer (#2544)

Thursday, June 4, 2026

Artist of the Day, June 4, 2026 : Claude-Max Lochu, a French artist, painter and designer (#2544)

Claude-Max Lochu (1951) is a French artist, painter and designer. He was born in Delle in Territoire de Belfort, and completed his degree at the École des Beaux-Arts of Besançon. Lochu was exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts, Dole, and is now exhibited permanently in Faure Museum as well as in 2 galleries in Paris and Lyon.

Claude-Max Lochu completed his National Diploma of Painting at Art School in Besançon (atelier Jean Ricardon) in 1975 and first exhibited his works in 1976 in Rabat and Tanger, Morocco. In 1979, he set up in Paris and exhibited his work at the Montrouge Contemporary Art Show in 1981 and 1982.

During a first trip to Japan in 1982, he studied the Sumi-é, an ink painting technique, with the Japanese painter Shiko Itoh. In 1985, he returned to Japan to visit Hiroshige's Tōkaidō road between Kyoto and Tokyo, and was inspired by the concept of fueki ryūkō, permanence and movement, developed by Bashō, the haiku poet.

Lochu also works on still life, interiors, landscapes of south of Europe, such as Mont Ventoux and Sorgue in Luberon, Aix-les-Bains, Valley Di Cecina and Volterra, where he looks for poetry rather than the representation. In addition to his works at the Artima gallery in Paris, Lochu exhibited at Faure Museum of Aix-les-Bains. Since 2001, he has held personal exhibitions at the Accademia libera natura e cultura in Querceto in Italia.[4] Since 2006, he has participated in the Peace and Light Festival for the project of Temple for Peace to be built by the Vajradhara-Ling Center in, Aubry-le-Panthou, Normandy with a view to promoting world peace.

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