Born Paris 1948 and brought up in Provence. Showing precocious talent for art, Senez entered Aix School of Art at fourteen, going on to win Granet prizes for both painting and sculpture. In 1966 he moved to Paris to study at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, winning the Grand Prix Rocheron and the Fortin d’Ivry prize and culminating as favourite and runner-up in the Prix de Rome, attracting a favourable notice from Balthus. From 1974 resident in Belgium where he pursues his overriding concern with technique and effects of light, starting with the Flemish masters and spanning a wide range of subject matter from figures to equestrian, landscape and architectural themes. Senez has shown mainly in Belgium but also in France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, and the United States.