DOMALAS

Criticism

A painter at heart since boyhood, Domalas has always been fascinated by the indescribable poetry that nature offers the eye, and has never stopped exploring and expressing the natural world in his artwork, in scenes that range from mists of his home region of Lorraine to grandiose chiaroscuro effects of his adopted Cotentin peninsula. A former student of the school of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg and the École Estienne in Paris, the artist’s creative career has been studded with awards and distinctions, yet what is striking is his exemplary artistic journey, which has always been guided by a desire to capture light, one that is capable of transcending nature and bringing a spiritual and divine dimension to his work.

Domalas does not content himself with painting landscapes; he reveals them so as to exalt them and to make them move with great sensitivity to the rhythm of his artistic soul. They become transfigurations of objective reality, or “sublime facets of the mind,” as the artist explains, revealing an extraordinary capacity to render – both in watercolours and oils – the exquisite beauty that nature has bequeathed to us.

In watercolours, which is a particularly difficult technique and leaves no margin for error, Domalas excels in conveying lighting effects thanks to his extremely fluid pigments with which the water plays. In oils, the artist skilfully handles the knife on abstractly composed paintings, to which he adds thick strokes of colour from a very rich palette to allow figurative motifs to gradually emerge. Here is an art of painting that can be described as “poetical spiritual metamorphosis”.

Francine BUNEL-MALRAS, Historian of Art

Exhibitions

Du 19/05/2023 au 25/05/2023 : OUISTREHAM : EXPOSITION DOMALAS A LA GALERIE DELOBEL

Du 01/04/2023 au 16/04/2023 : CAEN : 95e SALON INTERNATIONAL DES ARTISTES EN NORMANDIE A L'EGLISE SAINT NICOLAS

Du 25/08/2022 au 31/08/2022 : CAEN : EXPOSITION DOMALAS A LA GALERIE DES CROISIERS

Du 11/06/2022 au 23/06/2022 : BARNEVILLE-CARTERET : EXPOSITION DOMALAS DANS LA SALLE DU PARC

Du 13/02/2021 au 28/02/2021 : 2021 : EXPOSITIONS DE DOMALAS

Du 01/03/2020 au 09/10/2020 : 2020 : EXPOSITIONS DE DOMALAS

Du 16/03/2019 au 02/10/2019 : 2019 : EXPOSITIONS DE DOMALAS

Du 30/03/2019 au 14/04/2019 : CAEN : 92è SALON DES ARTISTES EN NORMANDIE A L'EGLISE SAINT-NICOLAS ET EGLISE VIEUX-SAINT-SAUVEUR

Du 02/11/2018 au 27/11/2018 : CAEN : EXPOSITION DOMALAS ET CAROLINE SUDRE A LA GALERIE ART-CULTURE-FRANCE

Du 20/07/2018 au 20/08/2018 : BAYEUX : EXPOSITION DOMALAS A LA GALERIE MEDUSA

Du 06/07/2018 au 16/07/2018 : CHERBOURG : EXPOSITION DOMALAS AU CENTRE CULTUREL LE QUASAR

Du 23/12/2017 au 07/01/2018 : LES PIEUX : EXPOSITION DOMALAS A LA MEDIATHEQUE VICTOR HUGO

Du 01/10/2017 au 15/10/2017 : SARLAT-LA-CANEDA : EXPOSITION DOMALAS A L'HOTEL DE VILLE

Du 15/08/2017 au 27/08/2017 : AGON-COUTAINVILLE : EXPOSITION DOMALAS ET CHRISTIAN GUEZET AU YACHT-CLUB

Du 03/06/2017 au 15/06/2017 : CAEN : EXPOSITION DOMALAS A LA GALERIE PLACE DES ARTS