….The act of painting for him is equivalent to a religious cult, and it is in meditation that his pictorial visions are born. Biblical subjects that predominated in his early figurative paintings come alive again in today’s abstract compositions, freed from traditional iconographic dogmas their mystical sense diffuses into the subtle reflections of light, into the strange radiance of colors.

In moving from the figurative to the non-figurative, Fichet has not at all abandoned the idea of a particular theme which would be expressed in each worthwhile piece, and his work consist in the slow and conscious elaboration of these themes.

 

He starts from spontaneous drawings that he transposes on canvas as a simple starting point, he prefers large formats which present less important constraints to the full development of all his means of expression.