By your first encounter with Guillaud, you are amazed by the diversity of his paintings. Diversity in the subjects but also diversity in the choice of colors, the nuances of lights and the material structures.
One may ask: 'How can Guillaud at his advanced age (he was born in 1925), imagine and paint so many different subjects?'... 'Why didn't he selected one theme or one style which could be easily identified?'
The answer is a strong one. Guillaud always refused to stick to one system or to paint or repaint 'what is commercialy accepted'. Guillaud creates what he wants, for himself, what he likes to paint to-day, with great love and sincerity.
He refuses to be dictated a theme that could be immedialtely recognized, an approach that other painters have chosen (for them the originality and the quality of a painting are not important... they prefer to sell their name).
But there are red threads accross Guillaud's paintings that Art Collectors do cherish: the human realism, the transcendent lights, the vigor of the brush. The real collector is blessed to own a painting from Guillaud and is proud to have met and to like a real artist.

Guillaud's work can be divided in three major groups of themes:

Landscapes often with people in the background: France (Beaujolais, Vendée…) and abroad (Espagne, Grèce, Italie, Hollande...)

L'Illusion humaine, the artist's vision of our humanity, with it's good and bad sides.

Scenes from daily life: Guillaud is a true witness of our society.

What about painting techniques? Guillaud has been compared to Courbet, Delacroix, Goya...He learned a lot from those masters and, looking at Guillaud's rich settings, the density of the paint, the robust contours, one recognizes the great traditions in the Art of painting.

 

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