The feeling about the whole work of Olivier is a fine and explosive mixture of figurative and abstract art cleverly skilled, embroidered with an original technique due to handling of brushes and colours. If his paints remind us the greatest masterpieces, they remain nevertheless flooded with the sensitivity of Olivier.

Having a glance at early works and nowadays ones, Oliver’s art has come a long way and now his painting is more abstract than previously as seen in his last ones. If primary colours are always there, on the other hand, the technique is totally different, the atmosphere has more shaded tones than the first ones and figurative let imagination take one’s place.

With hawks, the technique has evolved again with more sparkling, clear colours, with a glossy and predominant red, a rising green but so more pastel colours as mauve giving a japanese mood to the whole works.

As opposed to this japanese mood, human beings in Oliver’s works are very special. There are all master themes always operating in human experience, but their dynamics change through time. The belief that the human species is in conflict with nature, a hostile environment to be dominated in order to survive, conflicts with the belief that civilized societies can exist in harmony with the natural world and other species. Maybe, maybe not. The spectator will certainly find his own feelings.

 

What can be said about Olivier's work is that it lefts nobody unsensitive ; either we like or not, but undoubtedly, there is no half-feeling left, be it in his paintings or the sensation they cause. Isn't that the peculiar of all masterpieces ?

The works of Olivier will probably evolve again and again, following the flow of his life ; no one can tell what it will be in the upcoming years... Only Olivier might know, but what we do know is that he is a great talented painter to be reckoned with by his peers. We wish Olivier to be as successful as he deserves, and he will surely be.