Originally from Charentes and from Gontais for more than twenty years, Alain Baudry, painter, is exhibiting his most beautiful paintings until January 31 at the Relais du bois Saint-Georges, 132 cours Genet, in Saintes. Large acrylic canvases that he created over time with sumptuous landscapes in festive colors, in a world situated between realism and the abstract (1).
Graphics on map
Alain Baudry has recently offered another aspect of his creativity: graphic design on cards, “a parenthesis to get me out of the mind of large canvases which take me weeks”, he explains. With a simple black indelible Bic pen and a white felt-tip pen to enhance the lighting effects, it highlights local heritage through the strong elements of each town or village. His recipe remains simple: on maps collected from post office calendars, road maps, staff maps or a map of the Paris metro, he draws a monument that relates to the place.
To date and until 1is February, under the influence of Yann Chapacou, he unveiled 22 of these works in the fine arts department of the Peiro-Caillaud stationery at 7, boulevard Recouvrance in Saintes. With an opening planned for this Friday, January 17, at 6:30 p.m. Visitors will be able to discover on map backgrounds, a complete view of the port of La Rochelle, a small montage on the Ile de Ré with its cheeky donkeys, Saintes with a view of the three bell towers and its arena, the fishermen’s huts of Marennes, Paris with a metro entrance, etc. Creations offered for sale but which the artist can, upon request, reproduce or create other, more significant ones.
Contact: 06 67 26 47 21 or [email protected]. (1) Visits to the gallery are possible by appointment and without compensation, on 05 46 93 50 99.
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