Once is not customary but still!
Last summer, the Community of Lake Aiguebelette, and under the initiative of Marie-Lou Nivière, organized its first painting exhibition.
Thirty exhibitors gathered in 5 communes around the lake.
Thus, the numerous exhibitors were able to discover their beautiful artistic sensibility through various paintings and sculptures.
Unfortunately, we had a particularly stormy weekend and this did not allow the public to move in numbers.
Nevertheless, the experiment has been acclaimed and is continuing in another form.
Indeed, this year, 4 artists will meet in the same place to present works with the theme of Nature under its most beautiful assets.
Animals and landscapes more or less abstract will rub shoulders to make you dream. The particularly soothing setting of the lake will also be conducive to relaxation and wonder.
The vernissage is offered on Sunday, August 6 in the late afternoon, facing the lake and in the large room of the lake house.
An appointment that promises beautiful moments of exchanges with the public.
We had, as always, a perfect organization and a warm welcome from the members of this Innerwheel Orleans section.
The weather was very good, which made it possible to enjoy the opening outside and also to welcome the public of the plant garden. A large audience and connoisseurs gathered around the glass of friendship and during that time, an artist was performing on a large canvas outside.
During these 3 days, it was a real pleasure to find many familiar faces : it was a bit like coming home.
After 11 years in Orléans, it is quite normal to have forged many ties. Thank you all for your encouragement, your questions about my work, your sharing in your different workshops, our exchanges around your readings, your respective lives…
I had planned to bring a large canvas of 100×70 to better illustrate my recent work. However, the condition of my ankles did not allow me to come by car. So I had come long before the exhibition and I had dropped these small formats at a friend’s but I had to go back by train.
So I presented 8 30×30 formats around 2 themes:
koi carp
cherry blossoms
It was the first time I had done all my public transit trips for an exhibition.
Finally, I admit that it was less tiring and quite comfortable. I rediscover the TER and it’s just a bit longer than a car ride but taking the time to enjoy the countryside is a real pleasure.
And then, my luggage was unloaded from 5 small formats, which made my return easy!
From January 6 to 23, 2022, you can come and discover many painters and sculptors.
Take advantage of this totally free and open edition every afternoon and from 10am to 5pm during the weekends.
I will propose 2 large formats entitled “explosion of life” and a format 30×30
“Explosion de vie 2” Format 70×100
“Explosion de vie 1” Format 70×100
Finally, to prolong the event, a virtual presentation of the works will be proposed on the website of the association after the event:
http://www.lhivernaldelyon.com/
Details about this special day
For an afternoon, I open my workshop to you to come and feel the well-being that reigns there.
This beautiful atmosphere which allows me to be in good condition to let go and let my imagination go! I, I open my workshop to you in order to come and feel the well-being that reigns there.
A beautiful view of the Vaise district and in the distance The Alps, the song of the birds and the light due west: everything is there to make me feel at ease.
Because in this place, the sensitivity of each other will be affected by the atmosphere that emerges there. Let yourself be touched by the representation of Nature that I offer.
You will see more or less figurative works, various formats and water-based techniques used in different ways to enrich my work.
You will also discover that the profession of professional painter is very varied and that it requires many skills …
Because we need conviviality, meetings, exchanges and because Life calls us quite simply!
EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS AND CERAMICS AT THE JAPANESE CONSULATE
The appointment was made several months ago and here we are! From July 1st, several of my paintings will be part of the installations in the Japanese Consulate in Lyon: a good opportunity for me to present my work to the public of Lyon.
Black, grey and blue will be the dominant colours for this exhibition. As for the themes, sakuras and koi carp are expected to welcome the visitors!
These two works will be part of the exhibition and some other large or smaller ones will be proposed.
Sakuras retrouvées, 30×30, japanese painting
A fair dedicated to design and interior and exterior fittings. Designers are gathered around individual stands to show their know-how, share their ideas and exchange with a public eager for novelties and personalized creations.
This is my first participation and I am delighted to meet you there to present my range of artistic creations, centred on my favourite themes: Nature and Animals.
Works made on different papers and with various artistic techniques.
THE ALPES HOME TRADE FAIR REVIVAL
An exceptional year, an exceptional resort!
10 years after its creation, Alpes Home is going to settle for the first time in Isère. The resort of Les 2 Alpes, known for its glacier and its skiing in summer, will host the 11th edition of the show. The HOME OF RIDE will become the ALPES HOME OF RIDE for a weekend.
The programme will continue to include architecture, decoration, design and the art of mountain living, with a sprinkling of crafts, local artists and a large dose of the outdoors.
Owners of flats and chalets, hotels, restaurants and shops… architecture and decoration enthusiasts, construction, fitting out and renovation professionals, key players in the mountain will meet at the foot of this eternal glacier, for three days and two evenings of exhibitions, conferences and highlights that will mark the summer of 2021!
More information and free and compulsory registration on www.alpes-home.com
Ide et eau, 30×30, japanese painting
In 2020, I contacted the Lyon Winter Painting Association to join their group and start presenting my work in my new adopted city.
My application was successful and I was able to exhibit, not at the Bondy Palace as planned at the beginning of January, but virtually on their website www.lhivernaldelyon.com.
Many associations have had to take on a new role : that of “culture broadcaster in virtual mode” and I thank them for this beautiful ability to adapt.
This is how this first experience allowed me to be invited to the INTERNATIONAL ARTISTIC SALON OF PUY IN VELAY which will take place in August 2021. A positive and promising result for artists deprived of exhibition venues in 2020 !
“HORS DE PORTEE”, 70×100, peinture japonaise
OTHER SELECTION: THE ALP, HEAR Academie Lyonnaise de peinture
An academy founded in 1994, with the aim of helping and encouraging pictorial activities in the knowledge of the visual arts. It brings together 130 members recruited on file selection. This structure offers the possibility to exhibit on specific shows that are :
Berthelot Lounge; the independents’ lounge, the ArtAlp lounge and other events for members.
Since my file has been validated, I will be able to meet with Artists from Lyon and exhibit with this group shortly. News to come…
Find my page on the ALP website here: http://academiepeinture.com/artiste.php?id_artiste=242
I was supposed to present my fish on this beautiful show during the weekend of Toussaint 2020 but it didn’t go as planned and I hope this time to be able to hang my paintings on May 7, 8 and May 2021 at the CORUM in Montpellier. That’s why I continue to paint my little fish that I love so much!
IDE ET EAU, peinture japonaise, 30×30
SORTIR DE L’OMBRE, peinture japonaise, 30×30
Finally, this summer my works will be visible for free at the Consulate of Japan in Lyon. Consulate officers wait for a presentation of cherry blossoms and koi carp; two themes that characterize their country well and which I paint with great enthusiasm.
As you are no stranger, artists can no longer show their work because exhibitions are cancelled one after the other and as a result, they have difficulty working normally, as do many of you.
So what do we do? A Door closed AND ANOTHER OPEN: Businesses, for some, are finding it very difficult to stay open and I have asked these essential “entrepreneurs” to make myself known.
Indeed, having arrived in Lyon just recently, it is very difficult, despite my very good and great will, to show my work and offer my painting courses locally.
Well, thanks to this support, the inhabitants of the neighborhood will be able to discover my world of painting and know that I run painting courses for individuals and employees in companies.
I hope to be able to complete this first project of painting internships and thus help the association Les Cabirottes which relies on our animations to simply survive and maintain this offer of room rental.
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For more than two years now, in the shadow of my studio, I experiment, I grope, I play sorcerer’s apprentices with pigments, different papers and all the painting techniques I practice, hard learned from professional painters during various internships.
I select my material based on the work I expect and the knowledge I have of it.
Then I paint, I analyze, I compare the results, I write down in my notebook my various observations.
And then, one day when I felt I was pretty confident, I started offering watercolor courses that I called “watercolor otherwise”.
Because I wanted to stand out from my peers, offer a new internship with confusing and unique learnings and above all I wanted to show and demonstrate that it was possible to push the limits of watercolor by changing material.
The technique and the requirement of watercolour are the same, what changes is the adaptation it requires and the open-mindedness that it requires. To get out of habits, to take a wrong path, to free oneself from the “what will we say” to dare to assert oneself and mark the difference.
Letting go is especially mandatory for experienced watercolorists.
So I dared and the lovers of novelties followed. Big thanks to them because I won my first challenge!
This was done quickly since “The Tropical Rascasse”, 90×70 was selected by the organizers of the famous exhibition of water techniques and drawing, presented in Paris under the historic glass windows of the Grand Palais in February 2019 at ARTCAPITALE.
Work that gave the subject to long articles on the blog Designandpaper. Blog, which is written by THE company EUROPAPER in Vienna (Austria), present in 13 Eastern European countries and a member of the Heinzel Group.
Then it was the turn of mineral paper to be honored at the European Cultural Heritage Fair in October 2019 with my work “Elusive octopus”, 90×70 in pastel colors. This exhibition brings 330 craftsmen to the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris to show off their skills.
In any case, I can say that success is at the rendezvous with these new papers with both trainees and art lovers since the public and sales are beautiful and well there.
Atelier l'Envolée :
105 rue jean fournier
69009 Lyon
FRANCE
Mail : delph.duchesne@gmail.com
Tél. : 06.09.23.12.97
