Cognac: empty windows covered by the works of a painter

“Once it's dry, it lasts, that is if no one comes to scratch, obviously. »

This bird is not the only one to have found a place on the glass facades of three empty stores. The former Maison de la Presse is now decorated with two paintings, one, in the shape of an old postcard, shows sailing boats sailing on the Charente in the François I park^isthe other is a landscape of vines under a pink sky.

Meredith Logez started her ornamentation work last week. On Saturday, she painted her latest work, on the old window of the O'Cara store, a snail in the middle of a vine. On the other facade of the same store, it represented a view of the city. “The merchants' association gave me the theme: Cognac and the surrounding area. As I am attracted by fauna and flora, I represented animals and I also chose local landscapes,” explains the artist while giving shape to the tentacles of the gastropod with her brush.

Model in hand, palette stuck between her fingers, she paints freehand, after covering the window with a layer of white acrylic paint. “Once it's dry, it lasts, that is if no one comes to scratch, obviously. It resists bad weather. »

An artist who adapts

This is not the first time that Meredith Logez has painted on windows in Cognac. She has already practiced on that of the Le Texte Libre bookstore, for the 50th anniversary of the business, and on that of the Magnolia hair salon. “It costs more than a sticker, but people want something unique, they go back to the artists. »

“I am multi-media. Basically, I am a painter of trompe l'oeil decor and wall frescoes. She has also just created a huge work on the wall of the mess bar at air base 106 in Bordeaux-Mérignac.

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“I like it when I can paint what I like,” adds the artist. For the moment, she is not making a living from her passion, but hopes to be able to pursue it full time, so that she no longer has to take weeks off to paint the Cognac windows.