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Bobol is a French artist born in 1957 in Mulhouse (in
the east of France, near the German and Swiss borders. During his early
years he used to speak the local German dialect).
In 1977, he started to write essays, novels, and articles,
culminating in a total of 45 (unpublished) books in 1985, when he created
his own newspaper in Arriege, in the Pyrenees.
He started drawing during a 1990 trip to Tahiti. The
technique he uses is called 'drawing with small points'. All shading is
done with a Rottring pen.
Bobol came to Thailand in 1991, seeking a tropical life
after 12 years in mountainous Arriege. He started working in Kathu in
a puppet show created by an old friend, using Laotian puppets.
His work is based on drawing and his first graphic love
is the comic strip (with Manara as a model). The development of the 'drawing
with small points' comes later.
In 1998 he started painting with acrylic colors on canvas.
The bright and vivid colors in his paintings contrast greatly with the
simple black ink on paper in his drawings – two styles he learned
by himself through the years.
Bobol loves to draw and paint humankind, images of everyday
life, and especially the gentler sex's face. Overall, about 90% of his
work features women, as Bobol is in search of the Bobolienne (his ideal
woman). Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, indeed all of Southeast Asia, is the
main source of inspiration in his work.
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