Gil Lachapelle
United States
5 Works exhibited on Kooness
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Works by Gil Lachapelle
It is difficult to summarize the hectic life of this man with a thousand lives! Photographer, factory manager, mechanical expert, reporter..., Gil Lachapelle lives things to the fullest and it was during the first confinement that he started to paint..., with an incredible mastery of his two new companions: oil and knife!
From now on, this creative soul enchants our senses through his brightly colored canvases, whose shades of blue call for dreams and escape. If Gil Lachapelle creates landscapes and seascapes, it is the portraits that have his preference, painting women of all generations and all cultures, as a tribute to their strength and beauty.
It is impossible to admire his paintings with their often iridescent backgrounds without stopping and immersing oneself in the pure looks of his characters. It is there, in these eyes that the parallel with these famous mirrors of the soul is revealed, because that is what it is all about, going beyond pure aesthetics to give the viewer the desire to discover what is hidden behind the features or the shape of a face. Gil Lachapelle tells us the stories of these women and invites us to dialogue internally with them for unique encounters, full of emotion and humanity...
Born in Burgundy. Today he has installed his painting workshop a few kilometers from Macon (71), north of Lyon. He has a predilection for the knife, just by pure pragmatism! The artist hopes to have some qualities, but admits it, certainly not patience! The knife is the speed of execution. The knife is like an extension of the hand, he paints quickly, he remains and remains an eternal impatient.
Gil Lachapelle is obviously not a painter of introspection, he says of himself: "my painting is mine in essence, born of my experience ... of life, I wanted it: simple, pragmatic and effective. Thus, the artist invites you now to discover his various collections, which make him, what painter it is ..."