Opening/Vernissage - "Animals"

This is to invite you to the opening of my latest show, 'Animals' which is taking place in Gignac, Friday May 20,  7pm at 'Art Nomade. It is a joint show with ceramicist Cherryl Taylor.

Obviously many of you won't even be in France, let alone in this area, but just in case - please feel free to visit!

For those of you in London in June, you might want to keep the evening of June 8th free for an opening at the Brick Lane Gallery.

In other news take a look at http://www.lheraultart.com/ - where I am to be featured, also in the magazine 'L'Artiste'

Ceci est pour vous inviter au vernissage de mon dernier spectacle, «Animaux», qui se déroule à Gignac, vendredi 20 Mai à 19 heures «Art Nomade». Il s'agit d'un spectacle commun avec céramiste Cherrryl Taylor.

Visiblement, beaucoup d'entre vous ne sera même pas en France, et encore moins dans ce domaine, mais juste au cas où - s'il vous plaît n'hésitez pas à visiter!

Pour ceux d'entre vous à Londres en Juin, vous pouvez garder le soir de Juin libre huitième pour une ouverture à la Galerie Brick Lane.

Dans d'autres nouvelles jeter un oeil à http://www.lheraultart.com/ - où je dois être présenté, également dans le magazine "L'Artiste"

Re-revisiting Pic Saint Loup, and other things!

I've been working more on the Pic Saint Loup painting, which has turned into Pic Saint Loup behind a fence. I'm not sure about this.

The colours are ok, but the whole thing is beginning to look like three different paintings stuck together. It needs more work I think.

The difficulty here is one of composition. I've been working for the last few months on smaller views, which involve buildings, so the whole scale issue is different. As well as the lack of right angles, which is why i guess i created some.

This is very different from the other Pic painting I did - which is a small experiment - thick vibrant paint on a ceramic board/canvas thing that I bough in an art shop in New York. It seems to work, but what you can't tell from the image here is how small the actual painting is - about 20x20cm i thing 8 inches square for those who don't get cm.

The other painting I've been working on is an idea of taking the village landscape/abstracts a step further - but in some ways a step less - taking out complex marks and strokes. Using the textures I like, but primarily making the painting with only spray paint - and simplifying the composition a lot. I'm not sure it works completely. Too red?

Finally, I've been doing some giclée printing today for Peter Maher - it took hours because my printer was playing up, but eventually got what he/we wanted. Fantastic drawings of relatives/cousins - i like the Welsh small town image especially but generally these are really great drawings, as you'll see on his site here.

Pic Saint Loup revisited

There's some kind of walking festival later this month where ramblers go walking over the dramatic mountain of Pic Saint Loup. My paintings of the mountain I did last year will be exhibited 'en route' and in the place they all meet up. This kicked me into doing another pic painting - a bit of a leap from what I've been doing recently:

Dave Bown Projects

Here's an interesting thing:

http://davebownprojects.com/

Two more forthcoming exhibitions - Gignac and London - and the Fête Médieval at Les Matelles

More "Printemps en Folie" in Gignac from May 9th, and taking part in "Art in Mind" in the Brick Lane Gallery in London - put the opening in your diary for the evening of June 8th - more details to follow.

Meanwhile the Fête Medieval is this forthcoming week in Les Matelles - here's a few pictures to give you an idea of what it's all about:

But I'll just be selling bubble swords and t shirts

New Paintings - New York and back here

Some new paintings:

Forthcoming Exhibitions: Gignac and London

From May 14th at the Galerie Art Nomade in Gignac: with Cherryl Taylor again, drawings and ceramics; and from June 6th "Art in Mind" at the Brick Lane Gallery. Watch this space for further details.

And don't forget to visit the Soleil Bleu if you're anywhere near Lodève.