Oil on canvas, 114x146cm, 2020
Quarries
In my immediate life environnement, around the Bugey mountain in Isère, there is to be found an important number of still active stone-quarries. The great plasticity of these stones, cut by the machines, their unequal suraces full of scars and inscriptions, piled and left in vast, labyrinthic open spaces, rapidly interested me as a subject.
I have since visited a good handful of quarries and never ceased to be impressed by the differences in light, colour and ambience in each one of them.
I would like, by the way, to thank the owners of the quarries and their staff, that have never refused to grant me access.
Guinet-Derriaz quarry
Oil on canvas, 114x146cm, 2020
Quarry of Hauteville
Oil on canvas, 130x162cm, 2021
Carrières du Bugey (Bugey Quarries) – yellow stones
Oil on canvas, 100x81cm, 2020
Carrières du Bugey (Bugey Quarries) n°2
Oil on canvas, 100x100cm, 2020
Carrières du Bugey (Bugey Quarries) n°2 – The kiss
Oil on canvas, 114x146cm, 2019
Carrières du Bugey (Bugey Quarries)
Oil on canvas, 130x162cm, 2019
Quarry n°2 – 2018
Oil on canvas, 146x114cm, 2018
Quarry n°1 – 2018
Oil on canvas, 73x92cm, 2018
Quarry n°2 – 2017
Oil on canvas, 130x162cm, 2017
Quarry n°1 – 2017
Oil on canvas, 130x97cm, 2017