Sentier des arts en Terres d'Estuaire

Step 2: PEC Work

Arriving in the city center, at the village hall, discover one of PEC’s works.

PEC has always drawn at school and it was quite natural that he started graffiti in 1989 in his hometown of Lyon. He developed his art through his nights out and his experiences. Constantly questioning himself to find his style in line with the urban environment. His all-consuming passion led him to paint and hold exhibitions in Paris, Bangkok, London, Mexico, Barcelona, ​​Ibiza, Colombia, etc. PEC is above all an artist who uses the city as a gallery where his colorful works brighten up the daily lives of the inhabitants. Using a multitude of techniques and supports, PEC never ceases to surprise you at the corner of a street, a highway...

Continue your route towards Blaye until the roundabout at the Braud exit.

Step 3: Red Work

Arriving at the roundabout, it is on one of the walls of the old medical office that we find Rouge's work.

In 2014, Rouge chose a name that she wanted to be close to her street work: common, appropriable, multiple. In Rouge's practice there is the idea that an image is precious, and that making one of quality, that is to say thick in narration, in pictorial generosity and in poetry, is is a rare celebration to which she likes to devote time, and whose conception is forged through contact and exploration of its surroundings. Convinced by an accessible art caught in the fabric of the world, she has worked since her beginnings through collage or frescoes in the city, alongside rigorous studio practice. The wall, the neighborhood, like the canvas and the paper offer him the opportunity for figurations that are never symbolic but always narrative. His compositions offer a tension towards the manifesto, the fable or the poem, with attention to framing inherited from video, and always animated by the pleasure of painting in itself.

To continue the circuit, at
roundabout, head towards the central station.

Step 4: Lloeil's work

After 3 km, turn right and follow the direction of Terres d'Oiseaux. At the port, head towards the parking lot at the foot of the panoramic tower. You will find Lloeil's work on one of the surrounding buildings.

A fan of graphic design and solid colors, gradient colors or visual frames made of lines or points, rhythm is the conductor and the very essence of Loeil's compositions and work. After a period of plastic research on canvas working in series on identical formats with stages of saturation by stratum stopped at different times in the production process, he purifies his productions and now intends to move towards the minimal and the essential by using its gimmicks* of achievements and by highlighting games of depth and radiance.

Step 5: Alber's work

Take the road again towards Saint-Ciers sur Gironde. Arriving at the stop sign, turn right towards the city center. You will find Albert's work at the bend of an alley opposite the town hall.

For several years, walls in France and elsewhere have been covered with a face, imagined and created by Alber. Alber gradually detaches himself from the codes of graffiti in search of a more personal expression. From graffiti, it retains the fluidity of the gesture which traces lines and runs on the surface, but the lines and shapes come together in a figurative representation. The application of spray paint gives relief and light to these assemblages revealing a face of disproportionate proportions, a fixed blue gaze under heavy eyelids. This character becomes the signature of Alber who, from graffiti artist to street artist, preserving his freedom to paint where he wants, when he wants.

Step 6: Work by Stéphane CARRICONDO

Continue toward the center of Saint Ciers and stop at the public services center where Stéphane CARRICONDO's work is located. You can park in the cinema parking lot.
Linked to a creative process that he seeks to be free and spontaneous, Stéphane CARRICONDO's work echoes the powerful forms of primitive art in its broadest definition. Focusing on the energies that build our relationships with the World and with the Other, his spirituality, readable beneath his lines, undoubtedly evokes his primordial need to deal with universal laws: we are all beings of vibratory energy, which vibrates and moves freely. His art is the work of an introspective feeling that he considers necessary. An observer of a society increasingly detached from the values ​​of sharing, union and exchange, his plastic vocation is of the order of a practice essential to the mental balance of our distracted and polluted brains.

Step 7: Work of Ador

Continue towards the city centre, then at the roundabout, take the direction of Saint-Aubin de Blaye. Ador's work is at the crossroads.

Ador, a famous French artist with an overflowing imagination, ingeniously combines contemporary art and social criticism through his whimsical murals. Having become a master of satirical art with a perfectly identifiable figurative and caricatural style, the latter's aim is to tell stories based on drawing, displayed on canvas, paper, walls, and in volume. Whether it involves investing public space or a cabinet of curiosities, the research consists of communicating, by staging characters or objects that have been identified and that become recurrent. These images are organized differently to leave room for interpretation and reading direction. From the vocabulary of the circus or childhood, tales or current events, like parades, these joyful universes parade and present events that are ordered as best they can.

Step 8: Work by Hélène PLANQUELLE

Head towards Saint Caprais to discover the work of Hélène PLANQUELLE. You can park in the car park of the village hall.

Hélène Planquelle's work explores the dark side of our relationship with others and with ourselves, as well as the battle between good and evil that rages within each of us and in the world. A self-taught painter, the artist owes her intellectual curiosity and thirst for new knowledge to her literary studies and humanist training. With a deeply symbolic dimension, her work is rooted in a rich breeding ground of philosophical, literary, religious and also scientific references, in fields ranging from ethics to social sciences, including psychoanalysis, attachment theories, evolutionary psychology, the study of sacred texts and founding myths.

Step 9: Work by Mélanie Béguier

Continue on your way to St Aubin de Blaye. Head behind the bakery to see Mélanie Béguier's work; you can park in the car park.
Between commissioned work and personal practice, Mélanie deploys a vocabulary of forms to bring stories to life and leave room for the invention of new ones. From the notebook where everything begins to the mural, including the tattoo, her supports multiply to unfold lines and stories. Like a construction game, she
gathers and assembles forms to find balance between different layers of reality. Creating modular spaces where futures are to be built, riveted places to take refuge. Spaces which, even if cracked, are calls for a beneficial and soothing withdrawal into oneself, where one can reflect, think, imagine.

Step 10: Work by Jean Rooble

Continue your way towards St Aubin de Blaye. Head towards the medical office, you can park in the city stadium car park to discover the work of Jean Rooble.

For Jean Rooble, it's all a question of meetings. The graffiti and visual artist tells the story of humans through hyper-realistic, spray-painted portraits. It's difficult to miss the monumental frescoes of Bordeaux without stopping for a moment to admire the details. The artist works from his own photos and reproduces, down to the smallest pores of their skin, the models he paints. “Every time it’s a real encounter, it’s often people who are close to me, it’s intimate and it’s engaging,” says the graffiti artist from his workshop in Bordeaux Lac. His computer is open to Photoshop, which he uses to prepare his projects. To his left, the wall is covered in spray paint. 25 years have passed since he started spray painting, to which he has devoted himself full time for fifteen years.

Step 11: Work by Charles Foussard

For the next step, we will meet you in Val de Livenne, and more precisely at the Marcillac distillery to discover the works of Charles Foussard.

Charles FOUSSARD is an iconoclastic artist, figurative and abstract street artist With his feet in the sand since his earliest childhood spent between the island of Reunion and Bordeaux, Charles Foussard feeds on the most beautiful things Nature has to offer: the unexpected, the spectacular, the energy and the luxuriance of shapes and colors. The desire to transcribe this vision of the world embellished by numerous travels arose in the 2000s when the blockhouses of the Landes beaches caught his keen eye as a graffiti artist. The immediate click took him into a completely different style, far from the graffiti codes that marked his adolescence. Shimmering, intriguingly fluid, mineral and organic, his surrealist compositions immediately detonate and surprise social networks which propel him to the forefront. This self-taught man won the 2016 Bernard Magrez Grand Prix. If in his compositions the vegetation is always as opulent and the reefs undulating, Charles Foussard nevertheless excludes the human presence, identified by characters with a good-natured appearance named by his own words “Pépouzes”. They find their place as being the action of man, even his very inaction and become allegories of the human condition.

Step 12: Work by Léa HERAUD BAILAN

Let's continue a little further, to the Marcillac school, where you will find the work of Léa HERAUD.
A muralist and poet based in Bordeaux, Léa Héraud-Bellan has been developing a graphic language for several years that she calls meanders, which explores the balance between control and letting go, between abstraction and narration. This language has gradually unfolded on walls, giant formats, and shared spaces. Each fresco is an invitation to wander and contemplate poetic landscapes with bright colors and soft lines. In parallel, she leads a more textual practice: poetic collages made of words cut from forgotten magazines and newspapers. From these fragments are born hybrid texts, somewhere between collage, poetry, and dreams, where new mythologies emerge. Her writing, whether graphic or textual, explores time, night, movement, nature, space, and the traces that humans leave there.

Step 13: Work by Nadège DAUVERGNE

For the next stage, we will meet you at the Reignac village hall, to observe the work of Nadège DAUVERGNE.

Nadège Dauvergne was born in 1973 in Ouagadougou, then grew up in the suburbs of Paris. After studying graphic arts and then fine arts, she moved to Picardy, in the Oise, where she has lived since 1998.
Very quickly, she mastered many techniques, from oil painting to spray paint. But her choice would crystallize around a way of drawing, which she discovered due to a lack of colors: optical mixing. Combining the rigor of drawing and chromatic knowledge, each work created in this way, on a small or large format, is a real feat. This technique that she developed, she approaches it through a succession of colored hatchings that end up combining in the eye of the spectator, offering several levels of reading. From afar, a vibrant and luminous color can be observed and it is by getting closer to the detail that the palette divides to reveal each color that composes it. Nadège Dauvergne's drawings are a tangle of periods and touches, a weaving of stories that speaks to us about time, the time it takes for a work to be made, for itself and in its lineage.

Step 14: Bault's work

Direction Etauliers for the next stage and more precisely the city stadium where we find Bault's work.

Born in Rodez, Bault retained from his rural childhood a precise knowledge of plant architecture and entomological anatomies, which he combines with a consummate art of grafting.
Bault studied at the Beaux-Arts in Avignon and then at the Decorative Arts in Strasbourg. In addition to graffiti, which he has been practicing since 1997, he experimented with video art, graphic design, and illustration, disciplines that he would later practice for many years.
A modern primitive, Bault produces a universe populated by chimerical creatures where animals, humans, machines and plants marry and mix in a wedding of saturated colors. Each creation is a space of technical and plastic crossbreeding born from a painting of urgency, in automatic writing. Celebrating cave painting, his magical creatures question the subconscious of our changing era. His dreamlike universe with post-modern surrealism quickly establishes him among the most original street artists. From the walls of Paris, his creatures reach those of other cities and continents, through journeys rich in encounters and aesthetic shocks. The acuity and irony demonstrated by these works are the plastic translation of a sharp look at the questions and emergencies that agitate contemporary societies and their environment.

Step 15: Baffort House

Step 16: Dawal's work

Continue along the road towards the Etauliers exit where you will find Dawal's artwork. You can park on the main street.
After beginnings in the wastelands of Lille, Dawal developed a technique in a style teeming with details and rich in symbols, sometimes tinged with humor and irony. His graphic universe, colorful and lively, was built during paintings in public spaces during nocturnal sessions in Athens. Very quickly, his style is oriented on a surrealist basis, which draws its influences from the street and childhood memories. Today based in Paris, he continues his research on acrylic canvas and spray walls, always aspiring to escape the mind in narrative compositions.

Step 17: Work by Thomas Cheronnet

On the same building, you can find the work of Thomas Cheronnet.
Self-taught without diktat, born in 1961, 3 children, Thomas Cheronnet defines himself as a teacher/plouk/[tablo] manufacturer and [photographer]. Series, nested characters, words, a graphic questioning sometimes poetic, humorous, crazy, automatic… A search for identity, small fragments of reconstituted life, memories, aspirations, moments of happiness traced on rectangles of paper stuck on corrugated cardboard ([tablo] holder-[manto]) or on XXL canvases. A work like a travel diary of proximity, spontaneous. Lover of nature, the Pyrenees, the estuary, he currently lives in Cartelègue, in Gironde near Blaye in the school where he practiced his profession as a teacher in a rural environment. Regularly, he "goes down" to Béarn and "goes up" to Vendée.

Step 18: The Artwork of Rust

Next stop, direction Le Pontet, to discover the work of La Rouille.
You can park in the car park of the Salle des Fêtes.
La rouille, born in 1981 in Chambéry, lives in France. Self-taught, La rouille discovered painting during urban explorations. Attracted by the particular atmospheres emanating from these urban spaces abandoned by man, his approach focuses on deteriorations linked to history and time, both material and memorial.

Step 19: Artwork by Jerk45

Let's head to Saint Androny to discover the work of Jerk 45.
Jerk 45's compositions immerse us in a phantasmagorical world populated by chimeras and ghosts from the past. His retro imagery, made of collages from old magazines and scraps of collected posters, blends with a surrealist visual language. Upon closer inspection, Jerk is not far from the sustainable development activist, recycling his photographs found at flea markets onto his canvases. The result is a vast artistic bric-a-brac, a hybrid work of outrageous coherence.

Step 20: Kashink's work and end of the route

For the final stage, we meet you at the Saint Androny school where you can admire Kashink's work on the wall.
Kaskink draws its inspiration from the tradition of masks, which takes us back to a form of human transcendence. This tradition exists in all continents of the world, in Europe for carnivals, in Asia for opera, theater or folk festivals. In Africa, masks are used to accompany rituals or ceremonies, the same is true in many ancestral cultural traditions. The mask is a metaphor, it serves both to hide the face of the person wearing it, but also to reveal it, allowing us to question social codes, to create a link to the invisible. Makeup is also a way of creating this bond. For this project, Kaskink draws inspiration from these traditions to create enigmatic and colorful portraits, full of life.