Le Vent Nous Portera

Brittany has to be one of the most beautiful regions of France. It is both stunning and breathtaking in its raw beauty of wild landscapes and white washed low cottages with stubby broad chimneys. Here at La Pointe de La Torche in the department de Finistere, the wind howls as a storm brews and we get the feeling that the wind could take us far out into the ocean at any moment. It is not an unpleasant sensation, but a feeling of total liberty, total freedom, where the sky’s the limit.

We are on the edge of the Atlantic and the weather is changeable. The clouds are ragged and impressive and race across the sky at an alarming speed. One lone cottage sits on the edge of this captivating landscape, shrouded under the mist of a fine rain. One only hopes that their fire burns brightly inside.

The title for this work, which for the artist aptly describes this feeling of being carried away by a marine air, comes from a French song by the group Noir Desir. It is one of the artist’s favourite musical compositions, as haunting as the landscape.