After my last visit to the Pastel exhibition in Barcelona, I felt very pensive about Redón’s works… I knew that the pastels of this surrealist painter had a power of color, very different from the others. But after seeing his works live, I was really surprised by the texture, the structure and this velvet feeling […]
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I have been waiting for an exhibition like this since.…always! It was a great opportunity to be able to see all these amazing pastel paintings beautifully arranged, all together in one single place. The “Casa Garriga Nogues”, in Barcelona. A selection of dozens of different works; Original pieces from artists of the last 2 centuries, […]
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It was long ago when I did my last still life Pastel painting. Normally I do Pastel portraits that capture all my attention but I had this particular desire and joy to paint a simple still life set up for the first time in years… I almost forgot how liberating and relaxing the still life […]
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After visiting the mines, we took the car and not far away, only two kilometers, we found the old Mathieu factory. An old ocher factory, which produced about 1,000 tons of material a year, until 1963. It was then abandoned for many years until Barbara and Mathieu Barrois discovered the place, felt in love and decide […]
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In the Ochre heart of Provence, Roussillon. Following the colors, I arrived in Roussillon. The land of Ochres. A trip has many meanings. In the Cambridge dictionary, we read; “a journey in which you go somewhere, usually for a short time, and come back again”. But a trip is also a search, a change in itself. The trip is movement, discovery and […]
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I have always dreamed of visiting La Provence and take a tour following the steps of Vincent Van Gogh. One of my favorite painters. One painter that had a big impact on me in my youth. I admired his sincere art and his dramatic and tragic life, struggling through adversity. A life devoted to his […]
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I can´t wait the Spring arrives! I love Spring and I love flowers… And one of the signs that the Spring is on its way is when the Mimosa flowers start blooming. This is the moment when I know that the Winter is at its end! So I take my bike and go out to […]
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Like most of the pastelists out there I also keep lots of tiny pieces of soft Pastel. What can we do with them? Can we recycle them? I keep them selected by color ranges. Many small pieces into a lot of small boxes and pots that accumulate over time, waiting for their moment… Most of […]
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I made this Pastel portrait, step by step, a few months ago. It is the third portrait commission I get from this family. This time my model was a beautiful young girl dressed in ‘faralaes’, something very characteristic of southern Spain. I only had at my disposition low-quality photos, taken from afar and with a […]
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Sometimes dreams come true! We all dream of things we would like to do or achieve. And for me, those dreams are in colors…! Visiting the factory of Schmincke, one of my favorite Soft Pastel brands and one which I have been working with almost every day for many, many years now, has always been a great […]
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