This corner house caught my eye as I walked up the steep rue Alfred Assolant in Aubusson, La Creuse, France. I call it a corner house not because the structures were on the street corner, but because this curious house was tucked into the corner of the yard. The house was old but inviting, with it’s covered stairway rising up into the sweet dwelling.
In 2018 I was very excited to be making a body of work about my community of Aubusson in central France. I was using joyful bold colors and refining my drawings down to basic elements. In fact, quite a few paintings from that show became my “favorites.” But back to the rue Assolant painting, I made the bold statement of drawing on the silk the lines of my original drawing and then leaving the silk a pure white.
Seems simple, eh? In reality, it took a lot of contemplation, a lot of nerve, a lot of chutzpah to leave that silk white and call this a “painting.” But I must admit that I was very happy with the result, I was happy to watch others' reactions to it and I was even happier that I listened to my heart.
- Subject Matter: Architectural
- Collections: Aubusson, France