A word about Amborea by Henri Baviera:

This particular painting was not started to be what it became.

It gradually imposed itself during work, and, at this present moment, seems to me to be remarkable.

But to explain it is a bit like wanting to explain existence, it has a reality and yet little convincing to clarify its mysteries.

Painting is revealed only by the induction of impressions and emotions present in the mind before and during work. I am not a master of them rationally.

What are they? As with many, they are the feeling of the living world, which shows a period of change, not only in societies but in its current point of evolution, telluric, cosmic, organic and physiological.

We can see the presence of the four elements in a free evocation of the organic living world, but without this being the subject, this is only a starting point.

I tend in my painting to give a reflection of these phenomena, nonverbal and more sensitively condensed, in relation to our humanity.

It cannot, therefore, be a work of rationality, because my listening to the sounds of the world and its history, the questions it raises in me, is enough to feed my imagination and my emotions.

This is also why an explanatory discourse would be artificial for me and can veil a direct, truer and more emotional perception of the work.

What my work offers is a human reaction to express to my fellow men the feeling mentioned above. My wish is that the amateur or the spectator finds in this composition the pictorial and poetic attraction, which will make him travel and share a similar emotion.

Henri Baviera - Feb 17, 2020