Iceland, lava fields
Oil on Canvas
39x59in
$7,800
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Michel TESTARD
France
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Wood
- Other details : Artwork on synthetic panel. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 19.7x25.6in
About this artwork
Forest clearing. This an unusual theme for me, a bit out of my main inspiration from India. It was an oil exercise I undertook, as part of a creative class, back in 2009 in France. But the theme is not anecdotic. The forest clearing refers to Dante's Inferno and his famous line : " In the middle of the journey of my life, I came to myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost". We all come sometime in our life to a dark spot where we feel…
that our way is somehow lost. I experienced this and went to India in the middle of my life. And there was light like in the clearing. So that when fate stroke again with the Covid in 2022, the image which came to me was not a dark forest clearing, but a tropical garden seen from a window of hope. A view that one gets from a Goan room with a view ( see the series in my works). This painting is an experimental oil work made on paper, sticked on wood later.
Michel TESTARD
France
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
Michel Testard
wandering painter of faraway worlds
Born in Tokyo and raised in Japan and Vietnam, I later lived in Africa, the UK and for twenty years in India. These places were not stops on a journey but temporary homelands, each leaving their own colour and rhythm within me. I paint what has marked me: a bend of the Ganges at dawn, the mineral light of Ladakh, Icelandic wilderness, the twilight of Rajasthani bazaars, the meditative atmosphere of Indian classical music. At times the real shifts into the imaginary — Goan rooms opening onto the sea, murmuring jungles, humorous portraits of musicians, rajas and yogis. My style is spontaneous and expressionist, guided by intuition and shaped by colour, emotion and memory. I paint to honour the faraway worlds that continue to inhabit me.
You can also check out my Indian Chronicles, written under the pen name François-Xavier Croisy:
https://asialyst.com/fr/?s=Fran%C3%A7ois+Xavier+Croisy
Michel TESTARD
Forest Clearing
$3,680
