Artist Information:
Jean Pierre Soalhat
Caseneuve,
France
Member Since: Oct 2011
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Artist Statement:
It is in his tiny village,
Caseneuve, in the Luberon,
that he creates his wall
pieces, tabletops, and
emblemata (small tables made
of antique waxed wood).
Inspiration comes from antique
and mythological themes :
natures’s cycle and the gods
about her, the myths and the
creatures that idealize her,
with a special preference for
portraits.
Materials used include ceramic
tiles and marble found by
browsing through antique
shops. These are then finely
cut into morsels of one or two
millimeters.The tools are
exactly the same ones used two
thousand five hundred years
ago: a “tranchet”, a sort of
little ax pointing upwards on
a board of olive wood and a
“marteline”, a kind of hammer
with two curved edges.
The creation, unchanged since
the Romans times, is a long
process cutting of the rough
marble, reducing it to
morsels, drawing of the
illustration whose shadows
will express the depth of the
piece, positioning of
minuscule pieces, pouring of
the cement, unmodoling, and
finally polished. This is the
extensive time it takes for a
stone face to come to life.
JP SOALHAT often says that he
talks with his art pieces, and
in fact the expression of
every face that ...
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Jean Pierre Soalhat's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Jean Pierre Soalhat's Portfolio.
It is in his tiny village, Caseneuve, in the Luberon, that he creates his wall pieces, tabletops, and emblemata (small tables made of antique waxed wood). Inspiration comes from antique and mythological themes : natures’s cycle and the gods about her, the myths and the creatures that idealize her, with a special preference for portraits.
Materials used include ceramic tiles and marble found by browsing through antique shops. These are then finely cut into morsels of one or two millimeters.The tools are exactly the same ones used two thousand five hundred years ago: a “tranchet”, a sort of little ax pointing upwards on a board of olive wood and a “marteline”, a kind of hammer with two curved edges.
The creation, unchanged since the Romans times, is a long process cutting of the rough marble, reducing it to morsels, drawing of the illustration whose shadows will express the depth of the piece, positioning of minuscule pieces, pouring of the cement, unmodoling, and finally polished. This is the extensive time it takes for a stone face to come to life.
JP SOALHAT often says that he talks with his art pieces, and in fact the expression of every face that ... |
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