Born 1973 in Germany, Valéry comes from a multicultural and deeply artistic family, composed of textile designers, musicians and sculptors. In 2000, he graduated in Illustration and Painting from the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, and went on to train as an automotive prototype designer with Franco Sbarro in Pontarlier, France. His career in the automotive sector took him to Italy and then England, where he worked for renowned brands such as Bertone, BMW-Group, Ferrari. In 2011, he left this life behind and moved to the south of France to concentrate on his own art.
Here, he now focuses on the creation of oil painting on canvas, often in large formats. Landscapes and flowers lie at the centre of his work, with a strong focus on light, space, and depth. Influenced by the wilderness of the Mediterranean south, his practice is drawn to the unnoticed, the everyday, and the ephemeral.
He often works in series, painting the same subjects repeatedly and yet differently. Repetition, as a method of seeing more clearly, of approaching the world with openness and the understanding of nature as independent, indifferent to human presence. Valéry's work reveals the drama of the overlooked, where every form has its own reason to exist.