Guest of honor for the first time, Dominique Giraud is exhibiting around fifty paintings at the château this weekend. Around him, around ten painters, sculptors and photographers.
Dominique Giraud, self-taught painter, discreet and talented, arrived in Orléans around sixty years ago. He has been painting for more than half a century. A true passion. Retired, he returns, every day, to the small workshop he has set up at the bottom of his pretty garden.
Even when he was little, he drew a lot. “When I was bored, my big brother Gilles told me “take your colored pencils and draw!”, he says with a touch of amusement. As a teenager, at the age of 14, he created his first works in gouache. His themes of inspiration were landscapes and animals. Three years later, Dominique Giraud discovered oil painting;
When he is not in his studio, the artist travels around Orléans, camera slung over his shoulder. He immortalizes street scenes which he then paints with astonishing realism: the Place du Martroi, the Chancellery, old Orléans, the market… On the canvas, he also likes to represent, with great humanity, all those who liven up these Orleans streets in their own way: a greengrocer, a waiter, or even homeless people he met and who agreed to be photographed and then painted. Very attached to people, Dominique Giraud creates touching paintings. “In everyone, you have to see kindness,” he comments. I love life, I love people. I see the good side everywhere. »
The painter also likes to stroll on the banks of the Loire, which he transcribes, there too, with great realism on canvas.
Practical. Exhibition at the Château de Saint-Jean-le-Blanc (142 rue Demay). Free entry today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.; tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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