CAREER PATH :
William Himo was born in 1963 near Paris, in a family of artists and musicians. He took to studying drawing, mainly portraits in sanguine and charcoal, at the age of 7.

At 11, he added color to his palette ( watercolour and gouache) and finally settled on oil painting as his technique of predilection. He was then noticed by worldwide-renowned Anatole Ivancenk, who encouraged him to exhibit.

Since then, his artistic evolution and career have never stopped. His creativity is intensified by a lonely personality and his sensitivity heightened when in close contact with wild and authentic nature.This is why spaces such as the forest ( surrounding his hometown of Fontainebleau near Barbizon) and seashores are most adapted to his artistic expression.

He favours oil pastels and oil painting to liberate pulsion-like emotions, as the first technique enables him to work ‘sur le vif’ ( on the spur of the moment) to represent landscapes in an impulsive but nonetheless precise way.The second one is more suited to a slower, premeditated  and mastered process of creation, thus giving him the opportunity to compose , to shade and elaborate at length in his workshop.

EXHIBITIONS  AND  SHOWS

Salon d’Automne (Paris)
Salon des Indépendants (Paris)
Salon des Artistes Régionaux
Galerie D.L  (Bastia, Corse – Permanent exhibition)
Galerie Orta Nova (Fontainebleau – Permanent exhibition)
L’Atelier du Peintre (Fontainebleau – Permanent exhibition)
Festival International Django Reinhardt (Samois-sur-Seine)
Festival International de Jazz (Avon)
Regard sur le Jazz (Vaux-le-Pénil)
Musée salle  Paul Quevers (Montereau  - Personal exhibition)
Honnor guest (Chailly-en-Bière)
Exposition Art et Créateurs Contemporains (Guérande)
Personal exhibition (Guercheville)
Salons of Moret sur Loing, Fontainebleau, Montereau, Grez-sur-Loing, Villiers, Varenne-sur-Seine, Chailly-en-Bière, Arbonne-la-Forêt, Nemours...

2000

Exhibition  (Avon)
Exhibition  (Arco’2000 – Bois-le-Roi)
Exhibition (Cheroy)
Exhibition (Douzouer-sur-Loire)
Galerie Artes (Honfleur – Permanent exhibition)
Galerie Rochebonne (Paris 15^ème - Permanent exhibition)
Galerie du Phonographe (Dinan - Permanent exhibition)
Galerie du Phonographe (Dinard - Permanent exhibition)

2001

Exhibition at the Château des Bouillants (Personal exhibition)
Exhibition (Arco’2001 – Prix de la Ville d’Avon)
Exhibition  at the Salon de la Marine (Paris 16^ème) 
Galerie  Marie B (Fontainebleau - Prix du public)
Galerie Weider (Auray)
Galerie Les Ormeaux  (Challans)
Honnor guest : Les peintres de la mer  (Sables d’Olonne)

2002 

Exhibition ARCO  2002     
Exhibition n Galerie d’Hermance (Suisse)
Exhibition Galerie des Ormeaux  (Challans)
Exhibition Galerie du Phonographe (Dinan, Dinard)
Honnor guest in Samoreau (Honnor medal of the town)
Honnor medal (Samois-sur-Seine)
Exhibition Galerie Weider (Auray)

2003

Exhibition at the Académie (Biotat)
Honnor guest (Fontainebleau)
Exhibition : 150ème anniversaire de l’A.N.V.L. (Barbison)
Honnor guest (Montereau)
Art exhibition :  Art’2003 (Bois-le-Roi)
Art exhibition (Nemours) 

2004

Personal exhibition : Office de Tourisme (Melun)
Member of the Jury : Salon d’Art Animalier (Nemours)
Teacher at the Ecole d’Art de Samoreau
Exhibition : Salon d’automne (Fontainebleau)
Exhibition Art’2004 (Bois-le-Roi)
First prize, Golden medal (Chamalières)

Realization :

Offical poster for the Horse show‘1997 in Fontainebleau (published in  Télé 7 jours)

Prize :

Degree at the Fédération nationale de la culture Française
Découverte et sélections du monde des arts plastiques
Créateurs d‘aujourd’hui
Recognized for his contribution to the artistic Heritage of his time

Private collections :

Musée d’art contemporain des Sables d’ Olonnes
France, United States, Spain, Russia, Japan

 « No-one can really define what an artist is

    His work alone can reflect his sincerity

    Art in itself means nothing

    Feelings, emotions and suffering must appear

    Through what he represents

    His subject is nothing but a pretext
    To liberate himself »

William HIMO