SEAL AND PENGUINS (Eden in cold water) 81 x 100 cm
Oil and blown pigment on canvas. Real Gold leaves marouflage below the Seal. Impasto preparation below the blown pigments to accentuate the relief of the Iceberg.
Penguins are one of the few species who take a large time to play in a day: whatever the number of fish around, whatever the blizzard, they jump from the iceberg and climb back. Along with the Seal’s peace of mind, they represent the opposite of our stressed life and have no idea of the climate change that endanger their precious ice ecosystem.
TSURUS AT DAWN
This work follows the 2024 Tsurus series (see the 2024 Chapter)
This large canvas (100×120 cm) depicts a marriage / mating dance in very early winter morning on the SETSURI river in Tsurui. This place is mythical for the magical atmosphere it offers as the Tsuru emerge from the river mist. The mix of ice, mist and dancing Tsurus is a treasure for your memory, as long as you bear the -20 degrees of the scenary.
Technique used : oil over blown pigments over Tadelakt preparation and real gold leaves marouflage. The tadelakt provide a very smooth and nice to stroke canvas surface.
HAUNTINGS ( Eden in warm water) 81 x 100 cm.
Technique used : Oil and blown pigments on canvas prepared with real gold marouflage (the sun).
Snorkeling in ISHIGAKI. Do the endangered species of this marvelous diversified wildlife of the reef barrier include the SHOJO (sea fairies)?
BELLE ILE EN MER – moutons de pré salé 60 x 80 cm . Diptyque avec les chevaux de pré salé 60 x 80 cm.
Oil and blown pigments/ canvas; gold marouflage.
This couple of canvas are typical examples of the Figurative transposition current artistic trend : trees are surrealist and animals seem almost unreal in front of the beautiful scenery of Belle Ile ocean front.
SINGING BIRDS
The Singing Birds serie contains 30 small paintings most of them 22 x 27 cm
MOCKINGBIRD, SONG THRUSH and others : oil painting above a Tadekakt preparation and CYANOTYPE background. The result is an extremely smooth surface of the canvas, so nice to stroke! Painting over a Tadelakt background is a very special technique, not to loose the velvety surface obtained by long polishing of the Tadelakt with round pebbles.
THE FOUR SEASONS – Hokkaido crane mating dance (winter) and loving couples (other seasons).
Each season is an oil on canvas 8F format (38 x 46 cm). The technique is 24 carat gold leaf marouflage on the background, and oil over blown pigments for the pictures. Metallic pigments make the greens and grey iridescent.
As explained for the Tsuru painting serie of 2024, I take a special interest in the Japanese cranes, because they are the most faithful husband and wives of birds and have thus become a symbol of love and happiness in many countries. I am sensitive for this endangered specie as they need the frost and snow to mate , which gradually disappears from their land, and because they need the lake Khanka region to reproduce and estivate (summer migration) – this lake which is on the border between Manchuria and Russia is becoming polluted, with industry overconsumption of the water and no legal protection to this large ecologic area. No one seems responsible…but these birds are so beautiful, they dance like ballerinas on the pointe.
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