He fell into the cauldron as a child: mad about metal, passionate about old cars and their beautiful bodies, Jean-Philippe Fally nevertheless enrolled, with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, at the University of History in Avignon. But a meeting with a blacksmith changed everything. It was love at first sight for this red and hot material. He opened his workshop in 1993, in Pernes-les-Fontaines in the Vaucluse. There, he exercises his know-how in the ironwork of art, in France as well as abroad and collaborates with the Historical Monuments.

But the blacksmith-rocker, pillar of the RhinoféRock festival, also lets his artist’s heart speak. The passion, the mastery and the requirement of his trade are expressed with force in his sculptures. The artist draws his inspiration from nature and vegetation to create almond trees whipped by the mistral, a monumental fountain tree weighing two tons with 1,200 leaves sculpted one by one, or this valiant Cerninos, half-man, half-animal, which proudly guards the entrance of the castle of Charleval.