Since his first exhibition in 1971 Alain Ponçon has always expressed his complexities – picture after picture.
He often employs a rudimentary technique in search of simplicity.
Yet he never locks himself up in a single system – his work is punctuated with experimental paintings.
With great freedom he mixes techniques as the fancy takes him.
He knows that there is no recipe and that each painting is an uncertainty as for its success.

His art expresses his feelings, his fears, his anguish.
Bold stokes, spontaneous gestures, colour and tenderness are all in his paintings which appear misleadingly naïve.
But if you look closely you will detect irony as well as sincerity as the artist’s ultimate veil behind which he is hiding his sense of modesty.
He has special affection for paper which he likes for its brittleness and its resistance and in whose texture he finds all the uncertainty of a creator.