Outside the world of fashion and fleeting trends that punctuate the history of art today, one can find artists, such as Gil POTTIER, who remain faithful to their own research. Figure portrayal is his sphere, since his work deals with facial and corporal realities. Beyond the visible, through his work, emanates a poetic surrealism which either seduces or astonishes the observer. Strange characters entwined in cloth, dramatic characters with strange expressions whose presence becomes an obsession. Gil POTTIER's essential matter reminds us of Leonardo da Vinci's advice : "Observe the marks on the walls ". Because his paintings disturbs through its denseness and impact, it is not Innocent. It does not ‘represent ' but rather 'suggests' and leads the imagination to run. His reference, it is said, is Italian Renaissance. Gil POTTIER continues, in great tradition, to influence with today’s modernism. The mysterious world of this painter who, like all artists, creates one painting; his self-portrait. His characters blending, into the background like a Michael-Angelo fresco, Grave and beautiful work of indisputable quality because the spirit and the form are intimately mixed in drama. Gil POTTIER would no doubt feel at home in the world of theatre, and we can only dream of a Shakespeare play decorated by him.