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Jan

The Herd

Contemplating horses in a field. Watching them evolve in a natural environment, free of humans is always fascinating. I’ve quickly figured out that they create a zen space, calm and serene. At 90% of their daily time, there is no aggression, just interactions. And very subtle interactions! A 2 mm ear move and the horse in front push his body away. No need to shout or gallop like a crazy to be heard.

No doubt that if I move eyebrows in front of a guy in the post office to show him that I’m very angry… he’ll surely never even see that my face has changed!

That’s a shame. We lost our understanding of body language the same time the modernity growth. Unfortunately, I happened to know recently that we speak with our body at something like 80% and words with the remaining %. Huge!

It comes as no surprise that we’re not very efficient to understand our 4 hairy legs we adore.

✨Painting on canvas without a wood stretcher, 160 x 80 cm
☀️ Available on my Etsy shop

Oct

The Body

It wriggles, it moves, it waves… the body is a beautiful organic mechanism. I drown under the horizon, I undulate under the vibrations of the rain 🌧, I welcome the sun 🌤 & I vibrate in unison with the waves of winds. 🌪

Freedom is knowing how to enjoy these moments of nature in communion. It’s intense, vibrant. I was born to feel and I react accordingly. I am life and energy. I am calm and lonely, surrounded by my people.

This horse has come up interfering in the Endlessly Collection. He was well welcomed among the herd!

✨Painting on canvas, 81 x 65 cm
☀️ Available on my website

Oct

Look at Me

Why are you looking at me? Are you looking at me? At you? Maybe a little of both, you look at me to look at you.

So what do you see?

🦉 New painting available on my website

Oct

Message

What if they could talk to you, what would they tell you?
The message of the day from these three horses or from the painting… what if it was a bit of both?

“I look at myself and I look at you. I’m one at the same time as the other two. I’m not aware of myself and yet I am. I’m there with the others. I am according to the others. I’m one and at the same time I’m the herd, like the drop of water and the ocean.

Look at yourself as we look at each other, without judgment, without preconceived ideas. For a moment, look at the other as if they are a part of you too. You are also one but also a herd of human beings. You are a drop of water and you are also the ocean.”

Oct

Hierarchy 3/3

… After that, they’ll be the best friends ever and you’ll have all of the world’s evils to separate them… 😏

True story that I’m sure you’d share with me 😬

🌼 charcoal drawing on paper, 84 x 59,4 cm
👉 available on my etsy shop

Oct

Hierarchy 2/3

… Most of the time quietly but with energy, without even touching the other.

With just the dance of the ears, the ballet of the tail, the harmonious but efficient choreography of the body… they’ll understand that everyone has their own place and should keep it.

For the health and balance of the herd…
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🌼 charcoal drawing on paper, 84 x 59,4 cm
👉 available on my etsy shop

Sep

Hierarchy 1/3

The hierarchy at first it’s like a dance. Each looks to the other, each spy on the other from out of the corner of their eyes…

At one time or another, one will take the lead and would explain to the other that he/she is the boss…
[Next on the post after]

🌼 charcoal drawing on paper, 84 x 59,4 cm
👉 available on my etsy shop

Sep

No Words

Sometimes words are not needed. Just feel the picture, enter into the painting, experience the emotions felt, go through the colors, beyond the lines and surface… and let all those emotions surface without analyzing them, just feel et let them live and go.

🌟 If you want, tell me what did you feel?

🌼 painting on yupo paper, 48 x 34 cm
👉 available on my etsy shop

Sep

Earth connexion

I was born almost in a single gesture, quick and lively like me at a gallop.

I come from the earth, ochre and sienna, golden and warm.

I move in silence under the water and the mud, barely sketched but very much alive.

Besides, I’m so lively that you’re hardly noticed me under my fuzzy outlines but sufficiently precise to distinguish my ardor and my joy of living, this vital impulse that I know lurks deep inside me.

I’m the earth and the sky that I touch with my forehead.

💫 painting on paper, 40 x 30 cm
💫 Available on my Etsy shop

Sep

Invisible Link

Out of age horse, frozen in marble, an absolute symbol of the eternal. This horse will have lived several times: his own life, that of the painter as well as all those of the artists who were inspired by it.

An invisible link that multiplies lives to infinity, an invisible link with artists from several eras, each with their own vision of their time. Symbol of freedom behind a canvas and brushes. Everything is intertwined: life, artwork, time, space.

I continue this thread, I weave at my level this invisible link with this painting of Alfred de Dreux as a reference.

Who will continue this thread? 🧡

🌟Available on my Etsy shop

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