Title: Marne river banks in fall
Marne river banks in fall : figurative title for an abstract painting. Affected manner of the artist, proud stand of the creator who wants to show what is to see, what is to understand ? Nothing of that sort in my thought process. Just a statement and a clue given to other’s eyes. It was while coming back from a boat trip on the Marne by a fall afternoon that the concept of this painting came to my mind. I wanted to recreate the mood of the lanscape, its colours, its contrasts, its lights. But in a way where our figuratives references were hidden. It is true you still can see shapes reminding the river (flowing in the center of the canvas), coloured items put together that recall the chromatic mixing of the trees and their reflexion on the water. It is nonetheless beyond these marks that I wanted to communicate. To tell that nature – and our environment in its broad meaning – offers more than known frames. Its beauty leads beyond our traditionnal, reassuring way of looking, to the mystery, the one of creation. In that sense, the “abstract landscaping” lies very short and beyond reality : behind the lived shapes, after the sensitive ones. The game of the colours – in a certain order assembled, as used to say Denis – reacts with the painter’s energy to try to get closer to what will remain the indescribable, forever. (oil on canvas, 130 x 89 cm, 2006)
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