Jean Triolet - Painter of Felicity

From the fragrance of the garrigue, one drifts slowly towards
that impalpable lightness of things that attests that his
paintings are about felicity.

A grey-blue background, a hand and brush that paint. A line is drawn, forms appear. In several minutes, a landscape of Provence emerges on the canvas. And the painting had the effect of an antidote. If you are depressed or melancholy, settle yourself in front of this armful of colors. Your eyes light up, a smile comes to your lips, your soul finds serenity.

Painting is to Triolet what rhetoric is to a public defender: an arsenal for eloquent expression. Between the Mediterranean and the Alpilles, he found the land whose beauty he has recreated for thirty years, the Provence “that laughs, that cries, that sings with the cicadas.”

“I’ve always had Cezanne’s palette, I mean in the tones,” he explains. “For three decades, I’ve played with the nuances. There is a law in painting: one color is judged in regards to another color.”

Each canvas of Triolet is a personal vision of Provence, a Provence of origins, quasi-immemorial, that he would like to see preserved from the ravages of industrialization and galloping urban growth. Nostalgia? No.  Only the love of nature and respect for an indentity. One cannot help but subscribe to this thought of Alauzen di Genova: “The painter in front of his stretched canvas reconstitutes the mental architecture that he transposes from nature - to render it more sensible to others.” Who would blame Triolet for magnifying or idealizing his Provence?

The still-lifes and landscapes confirm his gifts of observation and his infatuations. What has changed, someone has said, are the softest colors. This is a new departure in his painting, yet not a repudiation of his previous criteria. And nothing allows us to judge this better than his recent productions or exhibitions. His art has the same coherence.

Triolet has too much experience to ignore that painting is a profession, a double engagement of the eye and spirit. It is an art of perception as much as one of memory. If the French artist, ambassador for his country, is appreciated in Europe and overseas, it is because in the United States, in Japan, in Switzerland or in Canada, people like knowing that his painting is more about what it contains than what it shows.

His paintbrush reconciles you with the real treasures of life. He is a painter of felicity.



Lorraine Jordan - A Colorful Seduction

Her love of Provence will be embraced in your heart!

 

 

 The Jordan piece above was recently featured in Texas Home & Living featuring our client's home in Austin. Interior Designer David Fuller with Alyson Jon Interiors utilized this piece as their inspiration for the client's living room.

 

 

 

In the living room a groin vault was created to draw the eye up. Bookcases David took from Mr. White’s office sit in front of closed alcoves. David says, “We did not want the built-in look in the living room. Furniture has much more of a richness and texture.” The inspiration for the room is a colorful landscape painting by Lorraine Jordan that hangs above the fireplace. With a cinnamon and chartreuse color scheme, “All houses must have humor,” David says, which is what he loves about the color combination. “You tell a client you are going to do chartreuse with copper welting over cinnamon ultra suede [sofas], most people would go, ‘Oh geez, I don’t know if I can do that’, but she said yes.  It was an immediate yes. It was the variety of color.”

 

 

 Through a vivid and melodious pallet, with symphonies of pinks, reds and yellows, Lorraine Jordan paints the subjects and the landscapes of southern Provence with a remarkable simplicity and subtlety.

 

 

Her paintings ring true because they portray, with love, the harmony of her living environment in its setting of luxuriant nature where the olives and cypresses stand guard over the vines, living symbols
of the Mediterranean sun.

 

 

 Much like Paul Gauguin, whose work she admires, her paintings rely on simple color surfaces.

 It is her use of brilliant, luminous colors, however, that captures the single beauty of her surroundings and adds richness to her paintings.

Seattle Art Galleries - R E Welch Gallery

 

SKY TOUR - Taking Art To New Heights

An Invitation Only Event at the Columbia Tower Club

R E Welch Gallery would like to welcome you to join us for Columbia Tower Club's “SKY TOUR - Taking Art to New Heights” This exclusive event is being held at the Club on Wednesday, January 19 at 6:00pm and it’s by invitation only.
The ground is covered in a vibrant orange, red and yellow confetti asserting fall is upon us and reminding us change is a beautiful thing. Colorful changes are happening at the Columbia Tower Club as well. With the help of Krista Kelly from Bilinear Art Consulting, Donald Dewsnup the CTC Committee Arts Chair, and Ann Pryde Member of the CTC Board have selected various art pieces to place throughout the club.

Sculptures and paintings compiling more than 20 pieces have been selected from three Seattle based galleries including R E Welch Gallery. Selected and installed with the viewer in mind, the artwork showcases the talents of local curators and artists.

The installations create an ambiance new to the 75th and 76th floor. Come view the club as you’ve never seen it before!

Please join us January 19th at 6pm. If you would like more details please call Richard at 206.264.8141 or email richard.smith@rewelch.com