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Feb

FACE TO FACE

From time to time, I’m like hit by divine grace. The subject pop up in my mind from nowhere, I work on the artwork directly without asking myself one hundred questions, all flow naturally and I finish it in a record time.

The divine grace I tell you!
This one was done in this mood.

It can be interpreted in many ways but I give you mine. I see one horse moving towards the spectator from the left to the right. He changes his attitude from a not focused position, to like he was surprised to see me, to finally be intrigued and curious enough to come and see me. Maybe I called him by the way?

And you? How does this drawing speak to you?

« Face to Face 4p »
charcoal & black chalk drawing on paper

Feb

THE CALL

I wanted to come back on this black and white painting. Of course I have to talk about the technique which is intrinsically connected to the meaning. I’ve worked on the global shape before the line here. As a moving horse, it reinforce this idea of movement. His shapes merge and are blurred because of the speed.

But not enough to pass through his look because he is totally connected with the spectator, focused on him, on us. Maybe he want us to move, to do something (and this could be taken literally or… not!), he calls us to be part of something. For sure he’s never in the judgment but in an open curiosity, a unconditional love. While the b&w allows to keep the essential with a big and beautiful contrasts with deep greys like I love.

« Equine Nude 9p »
graphite & black chalk drawing on paper

Feb

THE CAROUSEL OF LIFE

All started with an art challenge which was to interpret the carousel horse. The painting has been exhibited with some 50 others in the Haras of St Lô in Normandy, France.

It was really a challenge for me, not to say a struggle. What can I do with that? First it was a very good occasion to play with colors. Then I wanted something very energetic, as usual you would say. With that in mind, I started to paint and let go with the rest…

This carousel is the life. Colored, not too defined, in motion, free but framed. The life like cycles which go round and round endlessly or almost until the end of the tour or the next one. I made an allegory of life!

« The Carousel »
acrylic painting on canvas

Jan

BIRTH

Painting created for the challenge of the month with the Paard Verzameld Collective. Far away from subjects I usually approach, it nevertheless spoke to me.

I wanted a foal from my mare at the time and this event marked me as I’ve attended the birth. It’s a mix of sensations that are both very beautiful and very terrifying. I was excited and very stressed. Afraid that things will go wrong, afraid that the foal will not survive, that there will have some problem. And at the same time, fascinated by the life to come, the pain of my mare who was spinning in her box, blew, lay down, got up… the silence that reigned, I think we all murmured to not disturb this sacred moment.

And then a tip of a nose appeared, then the forelegs and finally this already huge but so frail body. A filly!

This painting is finally all these emotions at once with the idea of protection no matter what. The foal sticking to its mother, at all cost. He allows himself a look elsewhere while the mother is all in her concentration.

« Equine Nude 112t »
charcoal & black chalk drawing on paper

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