Serge PAILLARD

Meticulous illustrations done using very fine Rötring marker pens, teeming with detail: small strokes and tight dots, no aspect of the model escapes the artist's attention. Some of the motifs evoke the cartography of an imaginary region: Patagonia. For his model is indeed the potato. Potatoes fill Serge Paillard with wonder and fascinate him, "this marvellous tuber is a small planet where there are many fascinating things to observe and feel". He never tires of reinterpreting the budding, the unevenness, the bumpy terrain, the sprouts and the roundness of the different potatoes that he has selected. He chooses potatoes that are somewhat strange and curiously shaped, “the ones that people don't want and sometimes tubers that have been abandoned in the street in the gutter. They are an inexhaustible source of inspiration Serge Paillard immortalises them before giving them a name. He also uses this motif in other media such as embroidery adding colour in a thread-work process that sometimes requires several months to complete."