PanfilovPainting

29/03/2024

The little town of Èze is where I found this piece of wood. It isn't actually a driftwood, as it was lying on a brick planter in a narrow alley in the town on the hill above the cote d'azur. It already had the genius loci engraved in it's wood grains, so it was an easy decision to paint a portrait of Èze on it.

21/03/2024

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16/02/2024

Moonlight on the Rhine - one of my favorites. Driftwood can be very fragile. It's a piece of weathering wood. This process doesn't stop just because I found it and decided to make an art piece out of it. Actually, we are all getting old and falling apart one day. I've seen a special image on this piece of wood. However, by the time I put it on my easel, one piece of it has broken off and fell into severall pieces impossible to kit. A fundamental part of my imagined painting disapeared. Suddenly I have imagined a different image, this Moonlight on the Rhine. I guess the piece of driftwood wasn't satisfied with my initial choice and made me change it. Can a rotting piece of wood still be alive? I do think yes, it can. What is life? Well, in this case it's a wonderful piece of driftwood. I hope you like it. It's not big, maybe 30cm long, but the painting is very much alive :)

01/02/2024

"The wave" - oil on driftwood

27/01/2024

"Tree with moon" (oil on driftwood), and "Full moon on Rhine" (oil on driftwood) mirroring the back side of the same piece of driftwood.

26/01/2024

Oil on driftwood, some smallrt pieces of driftwood, however with very filigree wood grain.

25/01/2024

Rhine landscape painted on driftwood found on the Rhine riverside.

25/01/2024

Michelangelo is supposed to have said: "I see the form in the stone and free it". I wouldn't ever dare to compare with Michelangelo, however I've been seeing forms, not in stone, but in pieces of driftwood. So, I started reading those pieces… Listening to what the wood has to say to me… And making it visible for others. Showing what they have to say.
Every piece of wood is unique. Has a history. Has grown, got many branches and twigs. Some has broken off. Leaving a knothole… When a piece of driftwood gets washed up on the shore, you can see parts of the scarred soul of the tree it belonged once. One needs some awareness and imagination to "read" those woods. One has to leave the usual imagined order of a perspective on a rectangular canvas and deep-dive into the gnarly scarring of the wood grains and let being drifted away to the unfolding story it has to tell you. Many of the paintings look a bit van-gogh-ish, as the oil color on the wood grains substitute the stroke of his brush, which made his paintings so alive.
This piece of driftwood shows the waterfront of the city of Cologne, the Crane Houses near the old harbor. Please tell me what you think of this driftwood painting. If you like it I might post some more 😀

15/01/2024