Jean Patrice Oulmont was born in 1953 in Grasse, surrounded by olive groves. The studio he works in is part of an ancient family farm, set within forests of native oak trees not far from Toulouse. Using primarily oak and olive, Jean Patrice lovingly improves upon nature, reshaping, hollowing and stratifying, but always retaining a suggestion of the tree from which it derives. He has been working from the same noble oak tree for three years, during which time a symbiotic understanding has formed which is integral to the work.  

2008

• Bogéna galerie, Saint-Paul-de-Vence

• Courants d’Art galerie, Revel

• Outside sculpture, Mayronnes

• Sculpture en liberté, Roquebrune-sur-Argens

• Galerie l’Hirondelle, Carla-Bayle

2007
• Envolées de Matières, Blagnac Toulouse
• Bogéna galerie, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
• Courants d’Art galerie, Revel
• Festival de Queille, Mirepoix
• Galerie l’Hirondelle, Carla Bayle

2006
• Art-Metz, foire d’art international
• Bogéna galerie, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
• Courants d’Art galerie, Revel
• Galerie L’Hirondelle, Carla Bayle

2005
• Bogéna galerie, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
• Quasart galerie, Majorque
• Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden

2004
• Bogéna galerie, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
• Quasart galerie, Majorque
• Pashley Manor, Angleterre
• Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden, Angleterre
• Galerie Les Remparts, Carla Bayle

2003
• Bogéna galerie, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
• Quasart Galerie, Majorque
• Pashley Manor, Angleterre
• Galerie Odile Mauve, Paris

2002
• Linéart, foire d’art international, Gand, Belgique
• Espace Maillol, Bagnuls
• Lavoir Despas, Saint-Tropez
• Galerie Odile Mauve, Paris

2001
• Linéart, foire d’art international, Gand, Belgique
• Rue des Arts, Carla Bayle
• Rencontre Européenne de Sculpture, Montauban
• Sculpture en liberté, Roquebrune-sur-Argens
• Lavoir Despas, Saint-Tropez