Award-winning French painter Pascal Piro creates his fantastical realist works through emotion, curiosity and a sense of “lyricism.” His figurative oil paintings are often inspired by stories grounded in mythology. The artist describes his work as embodying a “surrealist, academic style, combining what I think to be the best of these two schools to develop my creativity. My style is like a true vector of the faculties of the mind,” he says. Piro began his journey as an artist at the age of 6, learning drawing, memory practice with the visualization of animals, and eventually houses, landscapes and various still lifes with the help of his private teacher. Since then, his artistic practice has continued to blossom. Piro’s work as a painter today builds optimistic stories filled with freshness, and even poetry.
Apocalyptic Prophecy, oil on linen canvas
Metenpsycosis of leda, oil on linen canvas
His oil Apocalyptic Prophecy is based on the book of Revelation, which is the final book of the New Testament written by the apostle John. “For a large part of them, the book predicts what will happen on Earth event after event. Some believers see the news as confirmation of these predictions ‘associated with divine guide to the end of our world’...For my part, I do not want to debate the veracity of this affirmation, belief and/or philosophical thought,” says Piro. “Faced with such stories and by its metaphysical aspect, deep inspiration anchors a color sufficiently spiritual to develop. Four horses without their riders, good and evil, a slice of bread in redemption symbolizing Christ—[this is how] the story unfolds.”
The Frugal Meal, oil on wood
Esope fable—featuring a woman, a goose, a golden egg and an egg that has cracked open—encapsulates the artist’s foray into the surreal. The painting is based on Aesop’s classic fable of The Goose & the Golden Egg. “The main subject of the painting is the farm woman and her goose,” says Piro, “a golden egg in the center and a simple broken egg to its right, translating the moral of this fable by what often happens to greedy people, always wanting more, [and losing] everything they already have.” Metenpsycosis of leda, drawing from the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan, is about the “migration of souls after death to a new body,” says Piro. 
Esope fable, oil on linen canvas
The sacrifice of Isaac, oil on canvasThe artist’s paintings have been featured in dozens of exhibitions and have won numerous awards across Paris and beyond. The most recent was the 2020 International Art Professionals Awards in which he received a bronze medal in the painting category for Metenpsycosis of leda. —
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