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Art and the Wild West in the Roannais
It is not often that you are both surprised and fascinated when you visit someones home for the first time.
However, recently in Roanne, the main township of the Roannais, in the Rhône-Alpes region we had the unique pleasure of meeting a locally renowned artist who specialises in creating colourful paintings of American Indians from the Wild West.
Indians such as Geronimo, amongst many others.
He has exhibited and sold his huge canvasses throughout France, and has worked and lived in the same house for 40 years, or more.
His house is jampacked full of art, artefacts, magazines, drawings, scattered all around, and stacked to the ceiling. Everywhere you look there are samples of his many drawings. To say that he is extremely prolific would be a total understatement.
His working environment seems to be virtually the whole house. even though he has a beleagured-looking studio in the back garden which looks to be held together by driftwood and canvas.
The place is a living testament to a dedicated artist at work.
You could almost say that his home is a work of art itself – certainly the result of art, seemingly ‘organically’ grown over the many years of busy habitation!
Serge Zuliani is now over 70 years old, and lives, almost hermit-like in his abode, constantly creating his distinctive works of art. He is from Italian descent, his family having left Italy to escape the rule of Mussolini in the period of the second world war.
He lives a simple life. A true artist in the classic sense! And long may he continue producing his canvasses of the American Indian – capturing the essence, magic, history, and colour of this lost period of the original wild west!
Photography of Jean Guy Lathuiliere at the Pure Art Gallery
The remarkable and highly creative photographic images of Jean Guy Lathuiliere are now being presented at the Pure Art Gallery.
Internationally renowned, and with an exceptionally successful and award-winning career in photography, Jean Guy’s thought-provoking work is on show at the Pure Art Gallery.
This includes beautiful, moody landscapes, graphic black and white portraits from around the world, and specially themed ‘movie’ features presenting a selection of his work in a sequential, and impactful style.
Jean Guy Lathuiliere endeavours in his remarkable pictures to discover an essence of truth reflected in everyday life and the world around him.
His images, although creatively impactful in their own right, they are also highly thought-provoking, and stimulate strong emotive response from the viewer.
Jean Guy Lathuiliere views his particular approach to photography as a fundamentally creative process based both on logic and emotion.”
“There is no paradox more strange and equitable than that of capturing the essence of a world clear and fast as a stream in images, compared to that which is often obscured and laboriously inscribed on the written page.”
His philosophical approach to image creation continues to this day.
Jean Guy was born to be a photographer.
The Pure Art Gallery has been developed in response to interest and demand by our personal and business contacts in the UK and Europe, and the many visitors to our successful Purefrancenow website.
As many of our clients have recently emphasised, you cannot have a website business dedicated to extolling the virtues of France without including Art! It is simply embedded in the essence of French history and culture, and pervades all aspects of life in France.
Food and Drink in the Roannais
A brand new section on www.purefrancenow.com has now been added to extoll the virtues of the variety and quality of the ‘Food and Drink’ available in the wonderful gastronomic region of the Roannais, Rhône-Alpes.
The Gastronomic Magic of the Roannais!
This is another ongoing ‘mission’ by Purefrancenow to visit, enjoy, assess, describe, and recommend some of the best food and drink products and producers in the beautiful and varied Roannais region of the Rhône-Alpes.
We do this for our own pleasure, but also to help with your choice and understanding of the quality and wide variety of different food and drink produce available when visiting this sensational region of central France, famous for the exceptional quality of its gastronomic delights.
Whether your visit is for business, leisure, or pure indulgence!
There are many things that people generally associate with French gastronomy – wine, bread, cheese, charcuterie, patisserie, and good cooking, for example. But the essence that binds all these products together in France has to be ‘passion’. Pure and simple!
The French enthusiasm for their food and drink is intoxicating, and they are undeniably good at!
We have great pleasure in leading this Roannais food and gastronomy section with a presentation of the remarkable, and internationally successful, Maison Fromagerie Mons.