`a work in colour of each exhibiting artist and a series of articles highlighting the richness of watercolour in all its facets'. 'The next exhibition will be held from 11 May until 2 June 2013 in Namur-Expo, which is a new location first used by the association last year.The space, large and clear, give more relief and value to hundreds of works submitted by the watercolors (sic) of 20 different countries'.
The book (200 pages) can be purchased and costs 39 Euros. Postage ?
Two views of the Exhibition
`Winner Jose Mespouille'
I'm not sure exactly what this artist has won, whether it be overall winner or in a particular section. If any French or Belgium readers of the blog can tell me more I would like to hear from them. The painting to the right of him is by a different artist. I have looked at all the 198 paintings and none, as far as I can tell, are attributed to Jose Mespouille
Alexandra Prischedko
Slawa Prischedko
Viktoria Prischedko
These are paintings from the Prischedko family, which are amongst the 198 shown on the website. They are a wonderfully varied set of paintings, full of colour and in many cases very adventurous. You can easily see the `realistic abstract' theme epitomised and given publicity by Keest van Aalts book `Realistic Abstracts'. The standard is generally very high. I have selected a number after looking at all 198 but I'm sure most of the others are equally worthy. Many of the artists are unknown to me and, while I haven't gone through the complete list, I was unable to find out much if anything on quite a few. Viktoria Prischedko is becoming very well known and my posts on her are the most popular on the blog. Enquiries on Google brought up information on a number but mostly from gallery or referral sites. I shall keep looking.
Roland Palmaerts
Eric Laurent
Yaohua Yan
Yves Rabin
Odette Feller
Stephan Heurion
Gerdes Marijke Wiedijk
Jean Verbecelte
Cao Bei An
Detlef Rhodius
I think that will have to do for now. I may do a second batch if there is sufficient interest but as I get relatively few comments it is difficult for me to judge. I may not have the names exactly right in some cases so apologies over that. Corrections welcome.
A word of warning the website www.salon-aquarelle.be/ is easy enough to access but has (largely) proved impossible for Google translate to change into English from the original French. Why? Somehow or other I did eventually get two pages to translate, including the important opening one, but this was after much trial and error, and exactly how it came about I can't explain. It has proved difficult to repeat. To look at the paintings click on `photos' in the top right bar, then when they load click on each one individually to enlarge.
I'm starting to wonder if I can organize a trip to Namur next year.
4 comments:
Thank you Peter for pointing out this wonderful event. It must be absolute heaven to be there amongst all those wonderful artists and their work. Thank you for putting this article up as I had never heard of it and will now be spending 'hours I think' looking through their site and the artists. Although at the moment I am doing a lot of Acrylics and Oils I do enjoy my watercolours.
Yes it is wonderful isn't it Ann. There is so much stunning work amongst these artists it makes you realize how much talent there is, a lot of whom havepreviously been unknown in the UK. Thanks for commenting.
Great post, you're doing us a service by drawing our attention to this exhibition.
I've been looking up how easy it might be to get there next year Mick. Namur is only two hours from Calais.Further enquiries in due course!
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