Bernard Lompré : English biography

How did this explorer of human consciousness, hypnotherapist in 1981 in Toulon, come to mediumistic, animist painting?

His creativity seems to be based on an indomitable temperament to the point of insolence, conne to appear at customs with his citizen of the world card .., The year of his 18 years

His whole life is largely accompanied by spirituality from the encounter with a psychological case unexplained by medicine which directs him towards studies in parapsychology, until the current period:
Where he creates animist mediumistic painting in his temple - painter's studio.

Bernard Lompré is the result of radical changes:
- The cessation of studies in medicine
- The unpredictable closure of the psychotherapy practice
- The end of muralist art
- The end of the tattoo artist's career following a serious accident
- And in April 2021 creation of samnak Ruesi, animist painting workshop

Born August 9, 1952 in Rabat

Son of a cavalry officer then on a mission in Morocco
A rebellious child, he did not make life easy for his family,
If his studies remained average, on the other hand he shone in sailing.
Federal instructor at 16, national instructor at 18

1972- A Bac passed narrowly with good honors.
The numerus clausus at the end of the first medical year passed brilliantly,

1975- In 3 ° year, in practical work of psychotherapy, is presented to him the case of a road accident victim who lost the use of French to speak a Swiss German patois ... place where he had never put the feet.
Bernard Lompré thought, but without talking about it, that it was a transfer of spirit into a body emptied of its spirit by the accident.
The artist then stopped the medicine he found, originally symptomatic !!!

1977- He joined the parapsychology study center in Nice, where he was able to learn medical hypnosis, until 1980 when he opened a hypnotherapy practice. In Toulon

1995- Radical change of means of expression at 43 Lompre discovers with astonishment and passion Polynesian dermal art in Tahiti.
Like Gauguin, Lompré became a specialist journalist for the Sunday publication of the daily La Dépèche de Tahiti.

1996- Installed in Bora Bora in the village of Vaitape Lompré imposes his style of Polynesian tribal fusion which is immensely copied ... the success is immediate ...

1997- A disaster hits the artist hard with the total destruction of all his photo archives, press kit, diplomas, documents ... during Cyclone Martin.

1999 -2005 Installation in Sanary sur mer, then in Saint Tropez and finally in Hyeres ... The career of the tattoo artist continues in the success but the explorer remains dissatisfied despite everything,

2005-2010l Installation in the suburbs of Geneva, the artist's career is at the top, invited to New York to tattoo a music star, Lompre often received clients from all over the world ...
Even though he said about his dermal art, It's not me tattooing, there is another force guiding my hand ... ancestral spiritual forces ...
The World of State of Consciousness Exploration

2011, closing of the Geneva salon and departure for the Indies, the ashram of Bhagwan sree Ranesh, Poona, then the Auroville community in Pondicherry, then after a long wandering through Asian countries, installation in the North of Thailand.

Each year, return to Switzerland for a few months, to satisfy the tattoo clientele until May 13, 2019 or a fall on the slippery cobblestones of the main street of Morges, VD, a serious fracture of the head of the femur, put an end to a beautiful career, return to Thailand for a long convalescence and the management of a sudden retirement ...

After having carried out more than 10,000 tattoos, spread over the five continents, in 25 years of professionalism.

Graham Harvey, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University in the UK, believed that animism's view of a person's identity granted "intelligence, rationality, conscience, will, intentionality, language and desire ”to non-humans.

Animism (from the Latin animus, originally “spirit”, then “soul”) is the belief in a spirit, a vital force, which animates living beings, objects but also natural elements, such as stones or the wind, as well as protective or evil geniuses.

The couple anima-animus plays an important role in psychology.
It is a resurgence of two terms from the corpus of medieval philosophy.

We find them in many authors, where they designate, respectively, the soul (anima) and the spirit (animus) according to a hierarchy of ontological dignity: body, soul, then spirit.
If ontology is the philosophical study of the question: "What is being?" », The painter Lompré considers that the spirit is primordial to the matter, it generates the soul which arranges the matter .

At dawn of this day, in full meditation, a spirit which called itself the spirit of the sea announces to him:
Your place is neither on a boat, nor elsewhere.
Your place is with us in the spirit world.
You are a mediumistic artist, a real Ruesi
Your role is to bring out the spiritual forces of the cahos ...

Suddenly, it was obvious the return to painting, while basing the creation on the artist's non-ego facing the work of spirits. And the application of the annimist techniques of upper Thailand.

By means of a ritual specific to the Lanna Country, the spirits are called to create a work from the energy of etheric space.
The incompatible mediums mix and generate an abstract work that Bernard Lompré called alchemical painting.
But what remains to be revealed, how to come out of the shadows ..
Going from abstract art by managing the chance of the meeting of different antagonistic mediums such as yin and yang, put together, in a second state, allows the disappearance of the painter-ruei's ego.

The father or the founding saint of Thai medicine is Ruesi Shivago Kumapaj who is mentioned in the Jakarta tales about the life of Buddha as the doctor of Buddha.
This is how the artist Lompré becomes a mediumnic painter in his samnak in upper Thailand.
Doi Pa Pae, Ban Wang Luang ..
Samnak = Ruesi Temple, and Ruesi = Sage of the mountain.

See the address of the temple, on google map

A detailed catalog is posted on these pages, a change of signature shows the end of one era and the beginning of the next.

Each transmission is carried out by the spirits present, it is painted during a ceremony of spiritual replacement, erasing the personality of the artist-medium, to reveal the message of the ethereal world in which we are constantly bathed and which influences greatly on the vagaries of each life
Thus each entry in the lompre # catalog is made on the site www.lompre.com.