Expositions

Didier POIRAUD

Musée Pierre Andrès - Péjuscla

From August 1st to 17th
2025

Didier Poiraud was born on the Ile de Ré in 1937. His passion for painting began in his teens. He was particularly inspired by the quality of the light on his island. Above all, he enjoyed working outdoors. He held his first exhibition at the age of 15. Once he had passed his baccalaureate, he went on to study at the ‘Beaux-Arts d'Angers’ and visited numerous museums across France to immerse himself into the work of his predecessors.

A few years later, his path led him to Provence, where he painted extensively, always outdoors. In each canvas, each one different from the next, he sought the tone of the place, the light of the time of day and the season, the movement of the wind in the trees or the clouds. He is called ‘the open-air painter’. His work reflects a particular moment, a freshness of vision and soul. His islander temperament makes him a man of few words, somewhat secretive, free and independent, a nature lover. But his smile is radiant just like his colours, each of his works is in perfect harmony. If he remains faithful to the clearest figuration, it is these splashes of colour that simultaneously recreate the form, rhythm, space, and light of the moment.

For over forty years, Didier and his wife Élisabeth have lived in the Quercy Blanc region of the Lot where nature still reigns supreme. He has exhibited extensively, but also from Toulouse to Font Romeu, from Moissac to Cahors. Some of his oils, gouaches, and watercolours have gone to Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, and England. We must salute Didier Poiraud as an authentic painter ‘who knows how to show.’

(With extensive extracts from art critic Robert Aribaut.)

Jacques TROUVÉ

Musée Pierre Andrès - Péjuscla

From August 1st to 17th
2024

Mireï ESNOL

Musée Pierre Andrès - Péjuscla

From August 1st to 15th
2023

Since 1992, Mireï Esnol has been expressing herself daily with various pencils, inks and gouaches.... Today, she finds her true calling only with paper as her raw material. She cuts, crumples, interweaves, overlaps, glues... passionately, madly!

Since 2009, her work has been ongoing: she refers to it as a ‘privilege and a blessing.’

Christian VERDUN

Musée Pierre Andrès - Péjuscla

From July 30th to August 15th
2022