michel – Michel Castaignet

Portraits

Posted on 29 November 2019 by michel

Arnaud, 2019, 24*33 cm, oil on canvas - Castaignet

Somehow I got fed up to use acrylic paint. It’s fast but it’s not very pleasant to use. Lately, with all the environmental pressure and with the knowledge that our society hasn’t taken the right path to be sustainable, the concept of speed isn’t so appealing. Nor the idea of acrylic being in fine justSomehow I got fed up to use acrylic paint. It’s fast but it’s not very pleasant to use. Lately, with all the environmental pressure and with the knowledge that our society hasn’t taken the right path to be sustainable, the concept of speed isn’t so appealing. Nor the idea of acrylic being in fine just […]

Landscape as a line

Posted on 22 September 2019 22 September 2019 by michel

I’ve been looking at ways to make a very minimal landscape. Just a few lines to suggest a tree, a hedge… It could also be a tree and a cloud,depends on the colours. Maybe just trees… A bit bolder, tree and hedge A tree and a cloud Trees Tree, cloud and hedgeI’ve been looking at ways to make a very minimal landscape. Just a few lines to suggest a tree, a hedge… It could also be a tree and a cloud,depends on the colours. Maybe just trees… A bit bolder, tree and hedge A tree and a cloud Trees Tree, cloud and hedge […]

Tree as a Shape

Posted on 10 September 2019 by michel

Untitled Sicily, 2019, 32x46 cm, oil on Canvas, Michel Castaignet

Lately I have been obsessed with a painting I did in 2015 while I was in Sicily. It’s the abstraction of an olive tree I could see from my window. It was at the time just a side painting I did one afternoon, I was then very much focus on making a very large paintingLately I have been obsessed with a painting I did in 2015 while I was in Sicily. It’s the abstraction of an olive tree I could see from my window. It was at the time just a side painting I did one afternoon, I was then very much focus on making a very large painting […]

Summertime in Champagne

Posted on 30 July 2019 30 July 2019 by michel

I spent July in South Champagne, in my atelier of Coupray. This year the landscape was particulaly striking for two reasons; the heatwave casted its own particular colour on the fields and all the farmers grew wheat this year, thus reinforcing the flat lines of the landscape though the uniform colour of crops. The landscapesI spent July in South Champagne, in my atelier of Coupray. This year the landscape was particulaly striking for two reasons; the heatwave casted its own particular colour on the fields and all the farmers grew wheat this year, thus reinforcing the flat lines of the landscape though the uniform colour of crops. The landscapes […]

Wall Painting in Jussey

Posted on 29 June 2019 29 July 2019 by michel

I have just finished a residency in Jussey, a French village in Franche-Comté. I have realised a 7 by 11m mural representing Marianne, the French icon of the Republique. The village had already a bronze statue of Marianne and they are commemorating its 170th anniversary this year with many related events and the commission ofI have just finished a residency in Jussey, a French village in Franche-Comté. I have realised a 7 by 11m mural representing Marianne, the French icon of the Republique. The village had already a bronze statue of Marianne and they are commemorating its 170th anniversary this year with many related events and the commission of […]