The other paintings
Then, there are those paintings, the « one-shots », subjects that haven’t really been deployed as series. Just like the « parking lots », that I haven’t continued for some years now. Or the little series of the « still lives ».
« The monkey » is an automat, belonging to my family, that is particularly dear to me. I perceive this object as a metaphor that speaks of the vainness and ridicule of the human effort. I can’t stop from thinking of the film « Andreï Rublev » by Andreï Tarkovski, whenever I contemplate it.
The « Waiting room » is a quite personal painting, of a place that I spent a lot of quality time in, as a child.
« House to renovate » was a « for sale » house that I visited some years ago, the interior was all salmon-pink, with squeaky wooden floors, and altogether in a quite bad state. In relation to the state of dereliction of the house, there was something attaching and at the same time pathetic, about those dry flower bouquets over the stairway.
An x-shaped nap – currently at the Charron gallery
Oil on canvas, 92x73cm, 2021
Automaton – monkey
Oil on canvas, 81x54cm, 2016
De Faria’s garden has no limits
Oil on canvas, 92x73cm, 2015
To renovate
Oil on canvas, 130x97cm, 2015
No title N°3 – 2014
Oil on wood, 20x20cm, 2014
No title n°12 – 2014
Oil on wood, 20x20cm, 2014
No title n°10 – 2014
Oil on wood, 20x20cm, 2014
No title n°2 – 2014
Oil on wood, 20x20cm, 2014
Waiting room
Oil on canvas, 114x146cm, 2013
Still life with mousepad
Oil on wood, 20x20cm, 2013
Still life with crumpled paper
Oil on wood, 20x20cm, 2013