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8 | Dominique BACHELET

Le bustier n°3
Bois de fer - H 56 cm

We are privileged in Normandy: there are extra- An excellent drawer and portrait artist, Dominique
ordinary wood sculptors of all styles, and Domi- BACHELET possesses within him the perception of
nique BACHELET easily belongs to the cohort of his chosen subject in space, going from the most
valourous artists who love the grain and the han- seductive and sensual walnut bust with its fasci-
dling of undoubtedly rustic but extremely res- nating grains, to the contemporary emanation of a
plendent varieties of wood. This self-taught artist long-standing and universal artform where sensa-
from Amfreville-la-Campagne in Eure has, with his tions and imagination reign supreme. Here is a sur-
natural and imaginative talent, enthralled obser- prising artist who is respectful of what is real when
vers at many a salon in Upper Normandy, harves- he chooses, but who is also a pure seducer, creating
ting distinctions without difficulty. In a decade works that are convincing in their originality, and
and a half, he has revealed the almost carnal de- beautifully finished, from the delicate and lustre
finition of his motifs, softening their innate rigour effects on the surface right down to the extreme
without losing an ounce of their evocative power. smoothness of the enveloping curves.

André RUELLAN, art critic