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Reminds me of my early 80s holidays in Ambila - Anosy Avaratra
Reminds me of my early 80s holidays in Ambila
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Portraits, landscapes... impressionism
The beauty & the sheer tenderness seduced me - Anosy Avaratra
The beauty & the sheer
tenderness seduced me
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Impressionist paintings, incl. market sceneries, landscapes.
I have a thing for those... Has been a strong taste for landscapes for years.

Portraits are just sneaking on top of my preference scale. Maybe the emotion in them would have to do with that. I'm more & more expecting to seize expressions one can read on those faces. Could be the tenderness, boldness, harshness, anger///

Although a tiny gallery, you'll find nice stuffs in Ateliers Zacaranda. Check picture #1.

Apart from Ateliers Zacaranda, one could reach the private gallery of one of greatest impressionist painters in Madagascar. But be prepared to pay, the guy is big. :-) He also lives & paints in Anosy. I'll fetch his name, cannot remember it now. Still, I visited his workshop & gallery once. Was then so enticed by those huge landscape paintings (one, I could guess it, of a Ranomafana spot... thick forest, river, rocks..)... Didn't even try to ask about the price. As I said, the guy used(s) to be huge...

Was my company running well (we haven't even found any premice, so far.. lol), I would be able to buy this painting on Picture 1. My taste for portrait is developing. The first portrait-like composition was this market scenery painting sold in Antsirabe. And now, this breast-feeding painting... So much tenderness & light in it. Just love the blueish shades of pink & blue amidst the warm ochre, orange, brown & yellow combination... I also love the lightness & balance in it...

I went asking about the price of the painting on picture 1: 150000 Ariary for the portrait (about 60 euros, a bit more in USD: 60-70)

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    Ateliers Zacaranda: Watercolours, Batik w/ Malagasy sceneries
    Reminds me of my early 80s holidays in Ambila - Anosy Avaratra
    Reminds me of my early 80s
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    Both the workshop ("Atelier") & the shop were in Anosy area. Go there for paintings (impressionists, portraits), watercolours, batik materials as well painted silk material.

    On picture #1, the watercolour painting I bought in 2000... because the sight of it suddenly reminded me of my holidays in Ambila-lemaitso wen I was 11 or 12. First & only time ever living in a bungalow (a real East coast hut, made from big leaves, without electricity, no running water & with lizzards). Painted by Rakotoarimana, the owner of the art-cum-craft gallery.


    - Batik material(s) with typical Malagasy motive (bivouac, for instance). Choose it with fauve warm shades if you decide to use it as lamp (see picture #2). It was a batik material I fetched as a gift for my best friend. She had the Belgian blue stone block fit to mount the lamp.. and voilą !

    - Watercolours

    - Watercolour painted silk material.. as a superb scarf, a tapestry, elegant cushions (jada green, pink camaieu, garnet-bordeaux combination, blue shades...)

    - Misc: boards of board games (with stones from Madagascar as balls); wood carvings; wood scuptures...

    Last time I bought sthg was in 2000.. cannot remember the prices

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