SAINTES

by: Jean Claude Roy

Location: Upper Landing in Lobby

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Country: France/Canada

Saintes is an original painting from celebrated French artist Jean Claude Roy. The colourful piece depicts a park and landscape of the historic town of Saintes in Western France.

Roy is an accomplished landscape painter who divides his time between France and Newfoundland. He describes his style as ‘expressionist-colourist’ and works most frequently in oils, applying paint thickly with a palette knife and brush.

According to the Harbour Gallery, “Jean Claude works almost exclusively on site and has frequently done so in freezing and wet weather, often carrying his equipment over long distances in order to find the right spot. It is not uncommon for an insect, a blade of grass, or a flower to find its way into his work, either by accident or purposefully by his own hand.”

“Characteristic of his landscapes are vast, highly coloured, and increasingly abstract skies.”

Sources:

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saintes,_Charente-Maritime

(2023). Jean Claude Roy (1948 –). Harbour Gallery. http://harbourgallery.com/2017/jean-claude-roy/

(2014). Biography / Biographie. J C Roy. http://jcroy.com/site/biography/

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