For Desson the act of painting is like drawing. He takes it further line by line, brush stroke by brush stroke. Many of Desson’s colourful paintings reflect a humanist spirit. With their bold dark outlining, and love of life.
Very human feelings fill these paintings and are transposed with a simplicity that is hard to find in today’s intricate and complex world. The women who populate Desson’s paintings exist in a variety of states of composure. Whether is a state of repose, or reflection, posturing or introspection.
In the space of a single painting, every conceivable area is filled with details. The painting becomes a space that represents an inner world, a world that the artist fills up internally with sometimes melancholy, other times joyous reveries that are drawn from the ordinary world, and this is extraordinary. This is what links Desson’s painting with the Beats, with Jack Kerouac. The women, the interiors, the animals…. The elements in a Desson painting are drawn from nature as witnessed by the birds, wolves, cats or pigeons, or from the artist’s studio life as with the easel, or from travel, or numerous other aspects of life.
As idealized embodiments of abstract desire, sometimes real, other times dreams, they are there on paper or canvas. Desson’s paintings represent a desire that exists in the collective imagination, that is tangibly intangible, and these dreams are colourful, joyful, voluptuous, and vivid. A certain enduring naiveté persists here, and a very folksy spontaneity.
