Benoît MORLAND
“Traditional painting and digital brush”
Benoît MORLAND
Traditional painter using digital brush
Benoît Morland was born on July 6, 1963, in Dole, Jura. He studied at the Besançon School of Fine Arts from 1984 to 1989 and trained as a musician at the conservatories of Dole, Besançon, and Grenoble from 1974 to 1990.
Upon graduating, his professional life revolved around music, without ever abandoning painting (oil and acrylic).
In 2016, he discovered digital painting. Since then, he has continued his artistic journey with this medium:
"My digital brush reacts to all the subtleties of my gesture, with exceptional freedom and fluidity."
Benoît Morland tells us about his relationship with abstract painting:
"Spontaneous, free… I play with my colors, I draw my lines and curves, like an improvisation." "The sound of jazz resonates in my paintings."
His figurative paintings represent his everyday world:
"A scene, an object catches my eye; I take a photo that will serve as my model, and the story that emerges will take shape in my studio..."
His works are printed on Fine Art Cotton paper using high-quality pigment inks in limited, numbered, and signed editions. They are printed by him in his studio.
"Printing on fine art paper is part of my creative process. Each print is unique."
Prints can be made on a wide variety of media.
Recent news:
- Painting series entitled "Aurore" (Dawn), or the emergence of musical notes, which received the jury's first prize at the Lions Club exhibition in Besançon on October 18, 2025.
- Concert-exhibition in February 2026. Performance of my paintings on solo piano and jazz standards on saxophone accompanied by a singer-guitarist.
- Live speed painting during a harp concert with orchestra on the Four Elements in June 2026.
