L'ATELIER DES PYRENOUST

Sculpture has always been his vocation, but it took Jean-Marie Mathon several years to find his favourite subject. After stone and iron, the artist definitely turned to wood, and more precisely to ivy, which illuminates his creations. Jean-Marie Mathon transforms this shrub plant into mushrooms, roosters or other figurative statuettes. He who was a boilermaker for about fifteen years, then a santonmaker, takes particular care of the interior of his creations, from which light naturally springs. The man also carved a giant santon from a Douglas pine trunk more than two metres high. A work of several years to give this shepherd a local color, from his headdress to the buttons of his gaiters.