My painting looks like music.
His painting is faithful to oil-painting.
Acrylic is used incidentally for the backgrounds.
He cares about the durability of his work by being careful about his preparations.
After the painting-brush is changed for a larger brush, a knife or his hand.
The work of material becomes stronger by mixing paint with sand from the Loire.
It’s grain is more or less fine, giving granulated surfaces where the light hangs on.
« Matters are important for me. It’s a tactile pleasure ».
He often uses pure colours just out of the tube and enjoys placing side by side pure gorgeous colours to generate optical mixtures.
He prefers warm tonalities and blue ones whereas grey colours are used to mix shades together. Black colours arise from time to time in some of his pictures very close to red ones, producing contrasting colours. The white ones are used very seldom to be a medium to the glazes in which Dabin plays with their transparence, their limpidness, their fluidity…
His way of painting gives a form of happiness without any conclusion.
There are plenty of voids and unknown areas. « In my painting it is perhaps these silences, unknown, fancy touchs of colours that are important ».
