Charles le Maire likes to work in a square format, where composition and colour are inseparable and interdependent. Diluting, mixing, superimposing, hollowing out or spreading out the pictorial material ; the act of painting is ultimately about making one gesture after another and thus revealing the properties of the material. Working on these fundamentals of the medium means finding an unlimited field of exploration, a space of non-mastery and discovering that the material brings to the work nuances and shapes impossible to imagine beforehand. Charles le Maire favours a reduced vocabulary that produces clear compositions and highlights details. His relaxed style produces vibrant ripples at the edges of the contours, distancing the geometric forms from the regularity we expect of them.