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Frederick Diart – Painter Extraordinaire in the Roannais !
Frédéric Diart was born in 1966, and now has his home and studio near the Roannais in the Rhône-Alpes region.
He is a painter of extraordinary imagination, originality, and creativity.
In his early years, between 1989 and 1991 he developed groups of paintings on paper, cardboard, sheets of lead or aluminium, and using industrial paints and watercolours. He also featured letters as motifs within the organized space of his canvasses.
Throughout the 1990’s he developed his style and approach, and experimented using small and medium formats and adopted vertical imaging rather than that of landscape.
He progressed after abandoning paints and industrial resins, using polyvinyl acetate, including increased application of solvents and paint strippers.
Systematic use of stencils and different alphabet sizes, and larger 2 metre- square productions.
From the end of the 1990’s and into 2000 and the new millennium, he continues to create, using mixed pigments and abrasives. The effect is imagery of illegibility and liquidity.
He also experiments with fine unprepared fabrics and the reactions to different tensions. Incorporating organic glues (bone, sinew, skin), and for certain canvasses, cattle blood. Decay and mildew within the canvasses results in a natural organic retraction effect.
From 2003 to 2006 he also combines crumpled, undone, shapeless canvasses, which wind around a partial deposit of material. Still using solvents, colour is applied to the back of the canvas with the solvent penetrating the applied layers of the material on the canvas, bringing colour back to the surface.
Frédérick Diart continues to be extremely prolific in the production of amazing artworks on a grand scale.
If you want to know more, or want to arrange a viewing of his works at first hand, let us know through our special Art section – The Pure Art Gallery
Or e-mail Brian Franklin direct at: info@purefrancenow.com
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More gastronomic delicacies with the family Troisgros !
Just simply further confirmation that we are pure total ‘Foodies’ and are easily led when there is yet another chance of a good meal in amazing surroundings, with perfect service, and with great company of friends.
Invited and treated by our excellent friend, Jean-Marc Dublé, to some superb Troisgros creativity, this was a wonderful opportunity for an exquisite fine-dining experience at Colline du Colombier.
Part of the famous Troisgros family’s restaurant empire, Colline du Colombier is further proof (if you needed one, of course!) that Michel Troisgros and his restaurant and kitchen entourage can put on a great show !
Luckily and surprisingly we were also ‘served’ in part by a very attentive Michel Troisgros and his wife Marie-Pierre who were both in residence, and enjoying a rare escape, and some fun, from their main restaurant of international repute and 3 Michelin Star rating – Maison Troisgros in Roanne.
The simplicity and quality of the food at Colline du Colombier, situated near the village of Iguerande is remarkable.
Michel Troigros also came and sat at our table to discuss his enthusiasm for ‘truffes’ (truffles) and passed around a large box of some very expensive white ones for us to savour the unusual and delicate aroma. The mushroom soup entrée was particularly amazing ! As was the ‘Cannelloni de potimarron aux noix’, and ‘Piéce de rumsteck au cassis’.
The environment is just wonderful – combination of ‘old barn’ with modern minimalist touches. The grounds around this restaurant are a little paradise of ‘nature’ And even in the middle of Autumn has a marvellous magic to it all.
A pure escape into a world of food and nature !
Visit the Maison Troisgros website : www.troisgros.fr
Also take a look at our Purefrancenow News and Reports: Maison Troisgros, Le Central, and Colline du Colombier
Purefrancenow Monthly Newsletter – Roannais, Rhône-Alpes
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