DAVID GUIOME

David Guiome's paintings can be seen at ARPAC, Castelnau-le-Lez, until September 21st.
You should take a look at Guiome's Tintin Revisited page.

Les peintures de David Guiome sont exposées à l'ARPAC (tout près de chez moi...) jusqu'au 21 de ce mois. Le dernier jour les visiteurs amateurs seront accueillis par le peintre lui-même.

ABC Wednesday .... G stands for Ginette Ayral

My friend Ginette Ayral is a wonderful painter. You can see some of her paintings on her blog, Free Art, and on her Facebook page.

Ginette and I will be leaving tomorrow morning for the Tarn where we will stay for a week, in the middle of nowhere. I will be back in front of my computers next Friday night. Have a great week and don't forget to visit the ABC Wednesday blogs.

Je pars demain matin pour le Tarn avec mon amie Ginette Ayral qui est un excellent peintre contemporain. Vous pouvez voir certaines de ses oeuvres sur son blog, Free Art, et sur sa page Facebook.

Je serai de retour vendredi prochain. Je n'aurai probablement pas d'accès internet pendant une semaine. Vais-je survivre à ce manque, that is the question :-))

ABC Wednesday...... G is for Mireille Giraud and Ginette Ayral

My friend Mireille Giraud has published three books so far. She is writing
a new one. Her books are at Harvard and other universities in the USA and in Europe.
I am very grateful to her for allowing me to see such nice places as Aveyron,
Ardèche and even the beautiful city of Albi (Tarn).

Mon amie Mireille Giraud a publié trois livres
et elle est en train de terminer l'écriture d'un quatrième. Ses livres sont
à Harvard et dans d'autres universités aux Etats-Unis et en Europe. Je lui suis
très reconnaissante de m'avoir permis de découvrir d'aussi jolis endroits que
l'Aveyron, l'Ardèche et même la belle ville d'Albi (Tarn).


Ginette Ayral, whom I have already mentioned on my blog, is a painter. She has created
a painting movement, called FREE ART. You can see some of her paintings on her blog.
She is a very nice friend too.

Ginette Ayral, dont j'ai déjà parlé sur mon blog, est artiste peintre. Elle a créé un mouvement,
appelé FREE ART. On peut voir certaines de ses peintures sur son blog.
C'est une personne très aimable et généreuse elle aussi.


ABC Wednesday blogs

Maurice Courret

Painter Maurice Courret lives in Montpellier. Maurice has painted almost everything in his home, including his floors, chairs and even the chimneys on the roof of the building.

Vincent Roussillat

Vincent Roussillat is a young painter from Montpellier. His paintings are like him, young, modern, friendly, imaginative and sexy :-))

The opening of his new exhibition in Les Côteaux de Montpellier, last Friday, was a big success. Good food and good wines, of course.

Our diva Nathalie Nicaud had fit her songs to the paintings. Her dresses too suited them! You will see that tomorrow.

Patrick Singh

On last Friday evening I attended the "taking down" of the exhibition of Patrick Singh's very beautiful paintings in the garage of a technical high school, Lycée Pierrre Mendès-France (former Lycée Méditerranée).

I had never met Patrick Singh before and I had never seen his paintings. Singh finds his inspiration from his travels throughout the world.

Patrick Singh has painted many black faces that are lit by touches of white paint. I did the opposite: I photographed him "in the shade," which makes him look a bit like his "models" (actually he paints without models).

I like the park of the Domaine de Méric in spring, with its large field of poppies and cornflowers. In the background you can see the "mas" (farmhouse, big house) of the famous painter Frédéric Bazille. The park appears on several paintings by Bazille, who died very young during the Franco-Prussian War, in 1870.

On the website of the city of Montpellier, there are "postcards" that you can send to your friends. I think the photographers have added a lot of red to the card showing Méric.