A fantastic artist I’ve discovered!
Posted by Kagisho in Dare to be YouDec 7th, 2011 | no responsesI’ve discovered one of the best artists that I’ve encountered in all my (many) years.
Where we live, in the center of France, in the Bourgogne (Burgundy in English terms) we have made many new friends over the past year. Two of the best are Bas and Agnès van Gaalen, Dutch expatriates, who run a cultural center adjoined to their home at a beautiful little country village called Mougny.
Well, Agnès is an artist and over the last year I have bought many of her paintings… they’re irresistible.
I know, like music, art is very much a personal taste – nevertheless I feel this person’s work should be well known. She uses a mixed media of ink line drawing and watercolor washes, montaged with photographs, applied to thick hand-made paper, and many of the images have an Oriental influence. They’re unique. Here’s an example:
Bas has created a new site to show and sell a particular variety of Agnès’ paintings, like the one abov – card-sized so they are ideal as gifts for Christmas or birthdays or for no particular reason… a demonstration of love. And incredible value at $25 including shipping world-wide. Each of these are originals, a one-off painting that is not quick to do – they’re not prints nor copies, so they’re a gift to treasure and probably to frame.
See what you think… Small Gift paintings
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