Dave Baranes 'Love In Paris' Print Available

Artist: Dave Baranes
Title: Love In Paris
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 30 x 30 cm
Edition: 50
Price: €55

Dave Baranes is a self taught French painter who transforms city walls into urgent elegies for the natural world. Raised on the outskirts of Paris, he absorbed the graffiti and decorative mural culture of the 1980s, learning to handle spray cans and rollers before he could drive. That early fluency in scale and speed now fuels monumental works where hyperreal animals stride, leap or crouch across brick and concrete, their fur rendered with near photographic patience while the backgrounds dissolve into streaks of saturated colour.

His chosen subjects are creatures on the brink: white tigers, black jaguars, gorillas, wolves and pangolins appear in states of calm dignity, yet human hands often intrude, painted as ghostly silhouettes that clutch, tear or pollute the scene. The contrast between soft living form and hard urban geometry creates an optical jolt, turning passers-by into witnesses of ecological crisis. Baranes describes his practice as environmental activism delivered through beauty rather than blame, hoping that awe will inspire protection.

Working without preliminary projections, he sketches directly onto the wall, then builds volume with acrylic and aerosol, finishing eyes and whiskers with tiny brushes to achieve a glow that seems lit from within. Recent murals in Nogent sur Marne and Saint Maur des Fossés have turned sleepy suburbs into open air galleries, while canvas editions and NFT drops fund new public pieces.

By merging street art immediacy with wildlife portraiture, Dave Baranes offers a vital reminder that every wall can become a plea for the planet, and that the wild still watches from the edges of our asphalt world.