Embrace Failure!
“We can’t stop now. I thought I’d stop when it was going well. But now it’s going very badly. It’s too late. We can’t stop now.” Those words come straight from “A Giacometti Portrait”. James Lord sat for eighteen days while his friend Alberto Giacometti did his...
8 Secrets to Enjoy Finnish Winter
1. Look for the yellow and violet Colors’ difference is what stroke me the most when I moved to Finland from Italy. Life here is violet and yellow when in Southern Europe or even in the US, life is blue and orange. I talked a lot about that with people in...
What Did Van Gogh See?
Talking about Van Gogh often leads to clichés that have nothing to do with the visual world: the last auction record, speculations about his cut ear or the grasshopper found in one of his painting (banal event when one does plein air painting…). I would like to share...
The Thousand and One Greys
Unlike what we think, Finland has one of the most colorful and bright winter. The intensity of colors is striking. And what we could think of grey is in fact a multicolor palette…I know it is hard to believe…So I have studied hard this winter… Work...
Sense of Sight
Behind the easel Watch a scene like a horse I could become a horse, or more exactly seeing like a horse. I couldn’t believe it. The French horse stable leader in horsemanship, Haras de la Cense, has featured a video simulating how a horse sees the world....
