Vernissage in Collioure, France
The poster is printed, the paintings are painted and I’m wondering how I’ll get them to France. They’re painted on wood, and although small (9″x 12″) there are quite a few of them. Carole Watanabe designed the poster. Carole’s painting is the background for Alice’s (bottom) and mine (top two). An unusual presentation, n’est pas?
Collioure, the town where Galerie L’Art Vivant is located, is a fishing village on the Mediterranean a few kilometers from the Spanish border. The Fauves, Andre Derain, Henri Matisse and several other early 20th century iconoclastic painters, chose Collioure for it’s charm and magical light. Carole Watanabe’s paintings reflect the joyful vitality and brilliant palette of the Fauves.
Alice Liff’s mixed media collages with their soft palette and nostalgic imagery are more introspective. Her work explores a world of what might have been.
My work courts the mysterious parts of my psyche. I might capture their images, but probably not their secrets.
By the way, a vernissage is an art opening.
