Self Portrait 1980
For the next two years I did a lot of commissioned portraits and continued glazing my mothers portrait and my self portrait. In the end of 1980 I moved from the "city" and took a studio in the "Chateau Noir" on the road to Tholonet outside of Aix. Cezanne had a studio in the "Chateau" for 30 years where he painted the Montagne Sainte Victoire.
Chateau Noir- Mont St. Victoire Cezanne
From my room I had the view of the mountain! The Chateau was truely a magical place surronded by tall umbrella pines. I would take long walks in the footsteps of Cezanne. My favorite place was the Bibemus quarry where the Romans first took stone to build Aix.
Bibemus quarry Cezanne
It was here in the quarry, looking at all the beautiful luminescent orange stone, that I started to have urgings to sculpt. And sculpt I did! How ironic, here i was in a place where Cezanne had painted his "flat depth" architectual views of THE mountain and the surrondings and I was sculpting voluptuous forms in stone!
"Demeter" Bimemus stone
Demeter was my first sculpture. It is now in the courtyard of the Hospital in Pertuis in memory of Dr. Catherine Baret who died in a tragic car accident. Catherine was a good friend of mine who commissioned me to paint the maternity in Pertuis. For her my Demeter epitomized maternity
"Cephale" Marbre de Carrare
In 1983 "I left Provence and stayed the summer in Carrare, Italy where I sculpted "Cephale, (exhibited in the Salon des Réalitiés Nouvelles, Grand Palais,Paris,1987). In the fall I moved on, to Paris, working in the Studio of René Coutelle, where I eventually became the head sculptor and responsible of the studio. René introduced me to granit,Maurice Lipsi and the Parisien "Art World".
" Phallos" Exposition Gallery Valmay Paris 1984Coutelle gave me the keys to a house he owned in Ménerbes in the south of France and On the first day of spring 1985 I started a new and wonderous adventure.
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