“This painting conjures blissful holiday memories for me, of sitting in the shade on scorching Luberon afternoons, with cold rosé and goats’ cheese, dreamily sketching the little natural treasures foraged from the garden by my then very young daughters: a sun-bleached snail shell; the cast-off skin of a cicada nymph; papery fragments of a wasps’ nest; a hoopoe feather.”
Adam Drouet graduated in Fine Art from the University of Falmouth in 2009 as a mature student. His practice consists of figurative painting and drawing, encompassing the figure, portrait, still life and landscape. He usually works on series of paintings around a particular subject; while these themes vary widely, there is a common connecting thread concerned with the human condition, the fragility and impermanence of life, and our different ways of seeing the world. Recent projects have included a residency at a dementia care home, capturing the lives of the residents and carers, and a personal interpretation of the Stations of the Cross. Adam lives with his family in Cornwall, combining his art practice with a career as a health care professional. The son of a Polish WWII refugee, he is very pleased to be able to support Art Aid Ukraine.