{"id":168,"date":"2023-02-28T22:31:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T21:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulmichel.ch\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2025-10-17T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:15:08","slug":"the-visual-journey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulmichel.ch\/?page_id=168","title":{"rendered":"The Visual Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1686\" src=\"https:\/\/paulmichel.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P-logo-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-223\" style=\"width:auto;height:100px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulmichel.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P-logo-scaled.png 2560w, https:\/\/paulmichel.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P-logo-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/paulmichel.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P-logo-1024x674.png 1024w, https:\/\/paulmichel.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P-logo-768x506.png 768w, https:\/\/paulmichel.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P-logo-1536x1012.png 1536w, https:\/\/paulmichel.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P-logo-2048x1349.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#b5b5b5\"> \u00ab\u00a0I do not paint what I see, but what I have seen.\u00a0\u00bb \u2013 Edvard Munch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#b5b5b5\">Since 2013, I have been self-learning how to master watercolour. My paintings try to capture and translate my vision of the scene lifting interrogations and offering a new point of reflexion about my living region. During my work, I free my mind by listening to the environment and embracing the mood and atmosphere around me. This state helps to trig spontaneous gestures guiding my brush to capture emotions. Day after day, this seeking process pushes me outside my studio painting pleinair to enable this unique feeling of freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#b5b5b5\">In front of these pictorial windows, eternal guardians of an inaccessible knowledge, I ask myself this question: <strong>Who are we ?<\/strong> My approach seeks to perpetuate the craftsmanship of the ancients and to highlight our natural and cultural heritage. 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