Painter, draftsman and engraver, Pascal Héranval has been building a unique body of work for over twenty years, at the crossroads of free figuration, naive art and popular traditions. His work is based on spontaneous drawing, marked by direct gesture and continuous line, drawn without prior sketching. Each stroke, fluid and meditative, gives birth to a dense and lively universe, where forms seem to spring from the same collective breath. For fourteen years, he lived in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where he discovered naive painting and the popular imagery of the Northeast. He also took engraving classes at the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia. It was there that he began to paint and exhibit, inspired by Afro-Brazilian stories, myths of the sea and the mixture of beliefs. From this founding experience was born an imagination inhabited by totemic figures, mermaids, marine divinities and dream maps. His paintings, often abundant, oscillate between forest, crowd, and cosmos. We encounter human silhouettes, symbolic animals, lush vegetation, and talismanic faces. Leaves, flowers, palms, and visionary mushrooms compose a vibrant nature, animated by a spirit of its own. His protective figures, stylized masks, and fragmented faces evoke primitive art as well as stained glass or ancient frescoes. His work links popular arts and contemporary research, revealing the bridges between naïve art, art brut, and singular art. Pascal Héranval does not seek to separate them. He makes them converse, mixing memory, poetry, and intuition. His maps, landscapes, and characters become like inhabited palimpsests, where traces of the world and those of dreams are superimposed. In 2025, the Anatole Jakovsky International Museum of Naive Art in Nice will present his work in dialogue with its permanent collections, as part of the Year of the Sea and the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference. After this museum stage, the works now leave the museum walls to join our gallery, where they begin a new exhibition chapter, inviting the public to rediscover them from a different perspective. This confirms the unique place of his work, an art that is at once intimate, poetic and universal, which connects continents, spiritualities and dreams.