{"id":37693,"date":"2026-10-26T16:16:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephane-alsac.com\/?page_id=37693"},"modified":"2026-10-26T17:15:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:15:52","slug":"stephane-alsac","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stephane-alsac.com\/en\/stephane-alsac\/","title":{"rendered":"St\u00e9phane Alsac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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St\u00e9phane Alsac at a show, in front of his works<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Biography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St\u00e9phane Alsac \u2014 <\/span>
contemporary French wildlife artist<\/em><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

St\u00e9phane Alsac, born in 1976 in Nantes, is a contemporary French wildlife artist: a painter, draughtsman and photographer specialising in the wildlife of Africa and Europe. Self-taught, he developed a hyperrealist oil painting that the specialist press has called \u201cimpressionist hyperrealism\u201d. A hyperrealist wildlife painter based near Bordeaux, France, he has been a Signature Member of the Society of Animal Artists (USA) since 2017. He received the Wildlife Artist of the Year Award from Safari Club International (USA, 2024), the Medal of Excellence from Artists for Conservation (Canada, 2016) and the Baron Prize at the Salon National des Artistes Animaliers (France, 2019).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI see myself as a portraitist of animals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 St\u00e9phane Alsac, CHARC Magazine, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Renowned for the anatomical precision and intense dramatic force of his work, he regularly paints on a large scale, seeking to create a physical, immersive face-to-face between the viewer and the animal that reveals both the sovereignty and the vulnerability of the wild. Each canvas is the portrait of an individual, not the depiction of a species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spending several months a year in the wild places of Europe and Africa \u2014 Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa \u2014 making field studies, sketches and photographs, St\u00e9phane has developed an intimate knowledge of wildlife. Back in the calm of his studio, he composes his paintings from this documentation, then paints them in oil on linen canvas, over several months for the large formats. Far from seeking technical prowess alone or a cold realism, his approach aims to capture the truth of a gaze or the tension of a suspended moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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St\u00e9phane Alsac in his studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Milestones<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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