Gérard Le Guern - Presentation

Gérard Le Guern was born in Brittany (France), in 1955 in the city of Concarneau. His family is originally from this region and he retains close ties to it. After pursuing industrial arts studies in Concarneau, Quimper and Brest, he left to Paris looking for an art school or an artistic trade. There he met the director of an advertising studio in Montmartre and eventually became a model maker. He later occupied different posts such as: illustrator, draughtsman, graphic designer and artistic director in visual communication firms and advertising studios.
After several years of freelance, Gérard Le Guern set up his own company.

With the onset of the computer age and its rapid technological advances Le Guern felt driven back to his roots, and as of the year 2000, has, once again, become passionate about painting. He now works as art director in an advertising agency in Paris and as freelance illustrator. Le Guern is registered as a painter at the Maison des Artistes (French Visual Artists’ Association).