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Keith Linwood Stover - Curator
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The Cyber Art Show
"Bringing the Museum to You"
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
“I am inspired by my own travels. Places and people offer me new scenarios and feelings to pour into my painting. Europe, USA, Asia, all cultures suggest diversity, to which I want to be the eye witness. On the other hand, art is a lens that translates the outside world for me to understand it and connect to humanity.
My way to achieve this is either paint on location, or take notes and draw sketches when I travel. I strive to work by memory, which requires a deeper observation; I select only what really reso-nates within. If I use my own photos I draw an edited version of the subject. Then I decide my own color arrangement, according to my mood and pre-mix a limited number of colors on my palette. At this point the brushwork should be (or at least appear) the easiest and most effortless. In other words, the painting should paint itself!
Ultimately I want the viewer to get lost in a timeless story. It's my highest reward. And a bet every single time.”
Gallery #671
May 25, 2018
Twelve Pieces by Contemporary Artist
Pascal Gauthier (Born 1960)
 Pascal Gauthier - Before the Storm (Avant L'orage) |  Pascal Gauthier - Old Road (Le Vieux Chemin) |  Pascal Gauthier - Wave |
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 Pascal Gauthier - Blue Trees (Les Arbres Bleus) |  Pascal Gauthier - Lights (Lumières) |  Pascal Gauthier - Ballad in the Countryside, Foggy Morning |
 Pascal Gauthier - Marine Rocks (Rochers Marins) |  Pascal Gauthier - The Loneliness of a Tree |  Pascal Gauthier - The Boat (La Barque) |
 Pascal Gauthier - Sunset |  Pascal Gauthier - Snow Trail (Sentier Enneigé) |  Pascal Gauthier - Red Night (Soir Rouge) |
- Image of the Day -
"Before the Storm (Avant L'orage)"
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Feature Artist Bio
By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of two 12-piece exhibitions of works by French painter
Pascal Gauthier (born 1960 in France).
Pascal Gauthier, lives in the Val-de-Marne in France and has been interested in painting since 1997, starting with watercolors. From the beginning of his pictorial adventures, he turned towards the landscape. Quite quickly, he chose the oil medium to express the strength of the colors using the knife.
After painting a few years, he embarked on the path of the abstract on large formats. For ten years his paintings were largely inspired by the Franco-Chinese painter Zao Wou-ki.
In 2015, he discovered during an exhibition of Pastellists in France the pastel world and decided to experiment. During his travels in the French countryside he photographed the landscape for reference to work quietly in the studio.
Student of Lorenzo Rappelli, Italian master pastellist and Violette Chaminade master pastellist, he particularly likes the undergrowth, the work of lights and counter-days.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
“To paint is to live a unique experience, that of creating with joy and suffering in front of the leaf. But first of all it is to interpret. I paint where I want to be and it is then that the escape operates its charm. The canvas must sublimate the photograph and take the viewer to the dream.”
