JOHN ARMSTRONG (OFFICIALLY) Jean-Paul Morrel-Armstrong (In reality)

Born in 1964 in Manhattan, Jean-Paul Morrel-Armstrong leaves the United States for Europe, due to the threat weighing on his father, who protested against the war in Vietnam with his artwork. At 17 he declines his place to study medicine at Cambridge and leaves for India to deepen his knowledge of the Vedic philosophy and seek the meaning of life. He returns to France and begins a rich and varied professional career, while always continuing his artistic practice: photography

Having trained as an actor and writing with a distinctive style, navigating between the Nouveau Roman and Sade, Jean-Paul Morrel-Armstrong talks crudely of his fears, his loves, sex and distress. Indisputably, his large scope of possibilities makes him an artist that cannot be satisfied with one medium alone.

Expressing himself with a style of painting that is somewhat inspired by Suprematism, Jean-Paul Morrel-Armstrong treats numerous subjects, between abstraction, photo-reportage and portraits. Conscious of recent evolutions in this medium, he now uses his images as raw material on which he redesigns contours after subjecting them to several accidents.

Jean-Paul Morrel-Armstrong lives in Burgundy, where he has founded ‘La Ferme de l’être’ a 200 year old ruin of a farm with 2 hectares of land, which he is converting into his atelier, laboratory and exhibition space, while practicing Permaculture, growing fruits, vegetables and medicinal herbs and flowers.