Coltrane is a "tetra-portrait" or quadri-portrait of John Coltrane. You know his music. His sax makes me think of feathers. Certain times they are the flows mixed with paints of red, blue, yellow at the bottom of the canvas. There are mixed techniques with: oil, acrylic, alkyd, gold and silver leaf, metallic (hematic) dust; feathers (crow, partridge, young sea gull); collages of colored glass worn by the sea; paper, photographic paper, portraits from magazines; vinyl records and CD. The right side bottom profile portrait is a collage made from the scrapping of the dried paint crust of my palette. In French the "croute" (crust) signifies also a very bad painting. (This mockery is a sarcastic excuse for not being a "contemporary artist." Next on my canvas, mixed with my fingers is the yellow hand (deformed by the perspective: larger than the head). This is the right top portrait. The CD title is Inspiration. The "Ins" was crossed off and replaced with "Exp," as in Expiration -- meaning to exhale as well as to expire. For it has not been very long since the death of John Coltrane.

On "Coltrane"

"The painting is a serenade of flame and receptiveness."

-- David Linker