Art is Cool!

You might think, this phrase sounds really cheesy! But I tell you: in the cheeky context Kevin and me used it, it is simply genial! Just have a look at this photo and you will understand:

Yes, we had the idea (and Kevin the patience) to write it on a fridge!

But what has this fridge to do with art, you might ask?

Well, I have currently a big exhibition in the Culture Centre of Mojacar. Have a look at the photo of the inauguration, taken just after we brought there the drinks and the food, and you will understand, at least partly.

You might have heard and personally noticed that our world is actually not in the best financial state, and well, Spain, for some different reasons which I don’t want to know (I prefer to put my head into the sand of our lovely beaches and wait until the crisis is over), is badly affected. This means, in particular, that our local town hall here has no more money to provide the inauguration buffet for its artists,

A real catastrophe, when one knows that most of the people who come to an inauguration come for the food and the drinks!

But not only can they not provide the buffet, there is not even a fridge there to keep everything cool until it has disappeared into these greedy mouths. I must say that  organising the buffet and keeping it fresh was extremely stressful for both of us. And this is why we decided to donate the quite new fridge from my former gallery in Albir (which I put up for sale some days ago, together with my house) to The Culture Centre, and, above all, to its exhibiting artists

Quite a cool gesture, isn’t it?

And in fact a powerful marketing move, although it was really not meant as such. We were just invited to put my name and  website on the fridge, but I thought the website was enough…

PS: if you are interested in  Kevin’s version of the story go to Cafe Crem.

The Eroscapes – #2 – Original

As I was a little girl in France (not that I am much bigger now…) they used to put in the magazines a game called

“Cherchez la souris”

( “Search for the mouse”)

They showed a picture where they had hidden a mouse somewhere, in the most unexpected place.

I loved to search for the mouse!

I wonder if you are able to find the Black beauty up there. Kevin is always amazed, when he looks at my Eroscapes, how he suddenly discovers some more figures besides the main one. Then he can’t believe that he didn’t see them at once. And in fact, once you see them, it is hard to believe that they really were there before…

Perception is such a mysterious phenomena… and we, artists, we sometimes love to play with it. I have noticed that many people adore the pictures where they gradually discover and recognise the various elements. They kind of get a deeper emotional connection to them, I don’t know why.

It must have something to do with some basic need of human nature…

All Eroscapes are available as Giclee prints on Fine Art Paper. Please contact me if you are interested. Have a look too at my page here

“The Giclee Prints: The Story”

The Eroscapes – #1 – Parallelism 5

As I said in my last post, each of my original Eroscapes has one or more Parallelisms.

No pretension behind the name nor the result, just my own fun and pleasure.

Many times people would love a painting if only… if only the dominant colour were red and not blue, if all the colours were different, if they were lighter, if the format were different, etc…

My Parallelisms are an attempt, beside pleasing myself, to please more people. One might say it is just a commercial trick, it is not, although it will surely help! But it is is above all creature pleasure and the resulting excitement to discover many different facets of the same painting.

And here I want to say a big

“Hurrah!”

to computer technique, which allows us to do such things without having to go through the boring process of drawing and painting the same things again and again!

The one I show you today is the last, at least for now, of the series on Eroscape #1… I don’t know how it happens, but it keeps installing itself as the background on my gigantic screen, and honestly, it looks fabulous as such. Perhaps it is just meant as such, only a background…

but well, backgrounds are very important, aren’t they?

All Eroscapes are available as Giclee prints on Fine Art Paper. Please contact me if you are interested. Have a look too at my page :The Giclee Prints: The Story”

The Eroscapes – #1 – Original

Don’t ask me how how it came about, but I suddenly felt the urge to paint some naked bodies lying around.. Me, who is normally so prude (at least in art!), believe me, it is a real revelation!

In fact I think it came naturally from my series Fantascapes where the blossoming almond trees last Spring suddenly took the form of dancing women, kind of…

Anyway, I took my pen and my watercolours, painted some naked forms, males and females and black and white, put the whole stuff into the computer, – you know, like in a washing machine- and here is the result:

The Eroscapes

I have worked a lot on them in the last few days, almost in a trance. During the creation process my naked bodies naturally moved  into parallel universes, parallel in colours, shapes and lines, but all considered in the same point of the time space.

I will call the first Universe “Original” (very original, isn’t it ? 

And the following ones, Parallelism 1, 2, 3…

Reminds me of my mathematician youth and this is great!

(All Eroscapes are available as Giclee prints on Fine Art Paper. Please contact me if you are interested.)

The Party is Over…

Well, not totally, but at least the inauguration of my exhibition in the Culture Centre of Mojacar (Almeria, Spain) is done and I can breathe again… and perhaps even paint!

My dear Kevin who was charged with making the photos while I was trying to entertain the visitors, was apparently too busy by the great buffet which the wonderful people from “Rolys too!” (the place where I have the other exhibition, Las Bougainvillas, Vera)) had arranged for us. So the only photos we had after the show was some of the food, and some of the local culture boss taking photos of me! But perhaps you will enjoy to see that food too, in fact you have seen here so many of my paintings already that you don’t need to see them again, do you?

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