D.o.b 4th June 1958, in Fontainebleau (Seine et Marne, France)

Student of Mrs Yvonne Bouisset-Mignon,
Ecole Comairas - Foundation Taylor-, Fontainebleau, (73-77).

Regular exhibitions since 1977 in France and abroad.

Moved in Normandy (Calvados) in 1982, and opens his own workshop in Honfleur in 1988.

Doctorate of Arts (Ph.D)
Thesis on Opera Stage Decoration (Paris VIII University, 1985)

Opera set designer since 1985 in collaboration with renowned stage director Philippe Godefroid.

Author of several articles and conferences on painting and on opera.Regular contributor to Techniques des Arts and Artistes et Techniques (1986-1990)

Pascal LECOCQ has been exhibiting his work across Europe for the last twenty years and his paintings can be found in galleries and private collections around the world.

Although his work includes surreal landscapes and opera decors, he has become famous for his images of divers in surreal situations enveloped in remarkable blue vistas.

Pascal LECOCQ loves telling stories.The characters evolve in their natural but surrealistic environment in which the spectators dive: this achieves the magic. Be it a diver "bullfighting" a great white shark, a group of divers playing leapfrog, or basketball or even ballroom dancing we are amused but in the same time, we never doubt the dignity of the character portrayed. Pascal Lecocq "frogman" character quickly becomes as charming as, dare say, Charlie Chaplin "the little Tramp".

The work of Pascal Lecocq reflects his humor, poetry, dreams and imagination.

Pascal Lecocq is a graduate of the University in Paris with a doctorate in Art.

Just yet 40, he is the author of a Ph.D thesis on opera decors.

His pictorial research and color work point to his great admiration of Van Eyck and Vermeer while his landscapes show the influence of Dali. His work is extremely personal and his matter is smooth, bright and delicate.