Auprès de mon arbre

From november 28th until january 8th, I will take part in the exhibition Auprès de mon arbre in Fribourg (Switzerland). Here are a few drawings I will present.

Latvia

Wandering the countryside in Latvia. A church, an old "Moskvich" and a "milk-table"...

Ethnology of (direct) proximity...

Windmill in Félines-Minervois

Day off during a recording session in the south of France. I took a walk up the hill and found this old

windmill, howling in the wind.

Port-Royal des Champs

Rehearsing near Paris, on the ruins of an old abbey, of which is left only a chapel and this dovecote.

Review

A very nice and sensitive review of "Inside Salmeck" on the american website Vermicious, by John Seven.

Castagnola, Lugano (Switzerland)

Still in the footprints of lavian poet Rainis, in his forced exile in Castagnola, a suburb of Lugano, in Switzerland.

Inside Salmeck

My first mini-comic "Inside Salmeck" is now available at Birdcage Bottom Books, the New York based publisher! It explores the neighborhood of my house in Basel, in an urban sketcher way...

It is a small format, 4.25″ x 5.5″, 24 pages. You can order it here.

Zürich II

Zürich

My last sketch in 2014. Usteristrasse 14, in Zürich, where the Latvian poet Rainis (1865-1929) lived in 1912. This is a project for an exhibition about him, to be held in Latvia in 2015.

Montpellier

Spending a long week in Montpellier, France, I thought I would have had more time to draw, but it turned out to be more difficult than expected to switch from rehearsing at the opera to sketching. I ended up with only two sketches. One of the opera house and another of the entrance of a housing complex built in 1988 by the spanish architect Ricardo Bofill, where our hotel was located.

Fribourg

Two quick sketches from Fribourg: the brand new "Pont de la Poya" and buildings in "Schiffenen", on the periphery of the city.

Basler Zeitung

This is an article published last week in the swiss newspaper Basler Zeitung. It talks about the Urban Sketchers group and my beginnings in sketching...

There wasn't a lot of sketching, this august. I actually concentrated on the making of a small children's book for my daughter's fifth birthday. The book is bilingual, as she is, french and latvian. It was nice, for once, to draw mostly from imagination, rather than drawing only from observation, as I usually do. I might eventually look for an editor, probably in Latvia. Let's see what the future brings...

Pour le site des Ombres, c'est par ici

Ah, oui, et le premier disque de Heima (monsieur Olivier Picon et moi-même) vient de sortir. Pour l'écouter/l'acheter, c'est sur notre site, ou sur Qobuz, iTunes, Amazon, etc. Enjoy!

Berlin 2014

It's been a long time since my last post. I've spent two weeks in Berlin, Germany, and this is a try to tell a short story about my stay in a comics form.