Bernard Collet

paintings, pastels and drawings
"nature"

Gaps. Redrawing the first squarings of appropriation of space and by some geometrical lines scarifying brutality. The relationship between nature and man. Today, we became the main agent of erosion-destruction of our surrounding world. The safeguarding of weakened natural balances seems now impossible. On the canvas, reversing the time to find back a strong nature, when the trail of men were still fragile and erasable. To find the reversibility, like these ways in the fields, these paths in forest which in a few years can be reabsorb in the vegetable growth. To find the shy first steps of the origins. To imagine the first openings, the first penetrations, the first passages in the heart of the vegetation.


"First place"
Oil on canvas. 57 1/2 x 44 7/8 in. (146 x 97 cm)

 

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"Time of the trees"
Oil on canvas. 39 6/16 x 31 7/8 in. (100 x 81 cm)

 

 

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"The brohen tree"
pastel. 25 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. (65 x 45 cm)

 

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"Lonesome tree"
pastel. 25 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. (65 x 45 cm)

 

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"Tree and ruins"
Oil. 43 5/16 x 28 5/16 in. (110 x 72 cm)




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