Personality (detail) Copyright Susannah Bolton 2011

Monday

CHRIS

So, back to exhibitions. Next up - CHRIS, as seen in Le Moulin de Maintenay in northern France -
-

-
-

These are both sides of the advert for Les Empreintes du Temps - this side is a photograph of one of his visually and also texturally stunning paintings.

-

-
Photography was banned inside the exhibition, but I did manage to sneak one photo, above. The exhibition was mainly large (all between 600mm and 1500mm square, at a guess) paintings of walls and doors of traditionally built derelict houses from the region. They all use a particular kind of wattle and daub style technique to make their walls, with wooden beams inside. Nearly all of the paintings showed this in some way.
What was stunning about the paintings was the texture - each one had been built up before the paint was applied, but in a planned way. Where CHRIS was going to paint wood, he would make the texture underneath the thin layer of paint as wood. Where it was rough and matted, there would be rough and matted material applied and then painted over. I thought it was pretty unusal to build up texture in this way - using other material and one or two thinned layers of paint rather than huge thick clumps - as many other artists do.
Seeing as I couldn't take hundreds of photos of the exhibition, I took a few of the Moulin de Maintenay and the lush countryside setting -
-

-
-

This and the previous photograph are of the building which housed CHRIS' exhibition.
-
-

Artisanal Creperie just across the road ... mmmm!
-
-


Eating crepes outside with a glass of cidre, absolute bliss!

-
-

Especially with such a beautiful view...

-
-


Or two!
-
-


Everybody needs propping up in their old age!
-sb 


No comments:

Post a Comment