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News, summer 2019. 

Projet d'un murale pour ESAT de Plaisance. Ce centre pour persons handicapé à eu un succes remarkable depuis 1974. 

On m'a chargé de la création d'une murale de 64m² avec la complicité des residents.

A 64m² mural for the local center for the handicapped

with the cooperation of the residents.

WORKSHOPS. ATELIERS. 

England 18/09/2019 - 20/09/2019 Dorset landscapes

Our new workshop in Dorset, England should be wonderful with the beautiful countryside and villages of this lovely county of England. We will be based in West Dorset and each day will visit a new site. We also have a studio in case of poor weather. See workshops for more details.

The new year has begun well with two really exciting commissions. The Croix Belle, one of the best wineries in this region of top class French wines, have commissioned a new work for their Domaine du Coussan.

German International Clinics who will be at ARAB HEALTH, DUBAI in January, have commissioned a set of prints to promote their marvellous new treatments for cancer and many other conditions. Thank you Dr Baltin!

Below is the finished 'credence' (splashback). The commissioned designs were printed onto the vinyl, washable and non fading.

A permanent exhibition of work is on show at 

The Art Gallery17 .

www.theartgallery17.com

Please contact me if you wish to visit the gallery.

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Getting inside the painter’s mind

Simon Fletcher is one of the best watercolour painters around. He has spent over 30 years refining his technique, which is a mile away from the British tradition, and closer to that of the Austrian and German expressionists, such as Emil Nolde, Oscar Kokoschka and Karl Schmitt-Rottluff.

When asked, out of the blue, two years ago to produce a mural covering 50 square metres of a wine estate building in southern France, Simon saw it as the opportunity of a lifetime to explore and explode the essence of the watercolourist’s art– literally by blowing up his work.

This is not as easy as it sounds. The essence of watercolour is the transparency of many pigments and the whiteness of the paper illuminating the image from inside. Blowing up a watercolour using traditional enlargement methods tends to reduce the illumination to an insipid greyness.

But with graphic techniques applied by his son Gerry, who works as a graphic designer at the BBC, the intensity of the paint stays the same regardless of the magnification. So the viewer is confronted, not by a sea of pixels, as in a Roy Lichtenstein classic, but by intense brushmarks and contrasts. It is if a giant hand using gallons of paint has been at work. You see the individual atoms of pigment mingled in organised fractal chaos.

For the first time, perhaps, the art of the watercolourist is revealed in amazing detail on the big screen.

Peter and Susan Close, who commissioned the work for Chateau Complazens, their winery near Narbonne, asked for an unusual mural. What they have ended up with is an extraordinary adventure into the possibilities that the digital age offers to watercolour.

The mural will be opened to the public on Saturday June 28^th. There is a special press opening on Friday July 4^th.

www.camplazens.com +33 (0) 468 453 889 

www.simonfletcher.org +33 (0) 467 236 528 +33 (0) 623921960

David Shirreff, formerly with The Economist helped to organise an exhibition of my work sponsored by The Economist