Monday 31 July 2017

Festival Arts & Vigne, Châtillon-en-Diois 2017


We are also represented by Saatchi Art:

On Sunday, 6th August, the 
Festival Arts & Vigne 2017
opens in Châtillon.
This is our sixth Festival and the second time that we will be exhibiting
in our own gallery adjacent to our house.  
The Village Gallery is fun and full of character but here we have an
established gallery and have decided not to use precious space in the
village and give ourselves the additional task of moving pictures,
lighting and ourselves.  Our gallery is a few minutes' walk from the centre
of the village.  Or, alternatively, a couple of minutes' drive (we have plenty
of parking).
We've found ourselves with a lot of exhibitions this year, perhaps rather too
many given the work involved.  But it's good to have been invited and 
difficult to refuse.  Later in August we have an exhibition at the
Ancien Monastère de Ste. Croix, just outside Die.  And in November we
will be exhibiting in Grenoble. 
Of course, our gallery will always be open when we are here and we usually are. 


We hope to see lots of friends, old and new, chez-nous.  We have
a lot of interesting work on display.

Monday 24 July 2017

The Forbidden City


Since our exhibition at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, six years ago, 
"Regards sur la Papouasie Nouvelle Guinéé"
we have been lucky enough to be invited to the opening of each year's
summer exhibition.
We remember how impressed we were by the "Japan" exhibition of 2010 and simply could not resist visiting Monaco for their  
"The Forbidden City" exhibition this year. 
We have been to The Forbidden City in Beijing several times ourselves, the first time in 1985, and wanted to renew and enrich the experience. 
We knew that the Grimaldi Forum's exhibition would be superlative, and it was. 
The icon of the exhibition was a portrait of the Emperor Kangxi
which was used as the cover of the accompanying catalogue and
the invitation.


We recommend this exhibition to anyone who has the chance to pass that way.

Our exhibition, now six years ago, (time flies) was promoted by a poster 
from one of our favourite images of a bride in one of the villages
of the Lai Valley near Mendi in the Southern Highlands of
Papua New Guinea.


We continue to work on and to offer limited edition prints from
our Papua New Guinea collection.  Please visit our
website to see more.  Or, should you have the opportunity,
visit our Summer Exhibition at our Gallery in
Châtillon-en-Diois in France where we live.