WHO IS Patrick Bonneau?
Born in Paris France Patrick Bonneau has always been a visual person, studying Art in different schools in Paris, growing up surrounded by sculptures, fountains, museums, Architecture, Paris was a perfect place to educate his eyes and mind in Art.
In the later years in Paris Patrick studied the art of Traditional and Computer Animation at the CFT Gobelins where he graduated in both field in 1993.
He then moved to San Francisco to work for Georges Lucas's ILM where he worked for 6 years, working on movies like DragonHeart, Mars Attacks, Jurassic Park The Lost World, Men In Black, Star Wars Episode 1 and Mission to Mars.
During that time Patrick won three Clio Awards.
Patrick also worked for DreamWorks Animation and Disney Animation, working on movies like Shrek 2 and 3, Madagascar 1 and 2 and Tangled among others.
After 20 years working in the Animation industry Patrick decided to work on his passion, Sculpture.
While working on these movies for 20 years Patrick has always kept practicing drawing shapes and forms, this prepared him for his Art today.
Patrick love the work of artist like Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, and Architects like Le Corbusier, Kenzo Tange, pier luigi nervi among others.
Patrick has been working on his Art for over a year now and he knows he will never stop doing this, as it is a dream come true.
Patrick is also following the work of intellectuals and poets like Joseph Campbell who said:
“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”
― Joseph Campbell
