Born on May 2, 1957 in Haute-Provence, Jean-Louis Honnet found his true vocation as a painter by way of different countrysides and studies at the Fine Arts of Troyes. The theme that emerges from the very beginning is that of Provence, a figurative pastel-colored Provence, which blossoms with warmth and color.

Today his recurring theme "Provence", enables him to paint large canvases, in which the sea coasts confront the earth. Jean-Louis gives himself pictorial challenges. He sets up nature in all its complex history in order to recreate his inner emotional world. The poppies represent the reds of his inner feelings of violence, which destroy and rebuild the earth with an avalanche of colors. Sometimes his colors are blended with ochres to bring harmony and light and therefore tenderness to radiant fields.