The beginning of Martin Jarrie was a landscape, that of the Sèvre valley, through which flows that important tributary of the Loire, the Sèvre Nantaise. From the back of his parents’ garden, he could not only see the Saint Martin farm, but also make out La Jarrie on the other bank, where he spent his early years. A sufficiently strong attachment to this childhood land for Martin Jarrie to choose the names of these places as his artist pseudonyms.

” In my childhood home, there was my father’s vegetable garden with, at the very top of this enclosure, gathered around the well, my mother’s flowerbed and, under the nearby veranda, the succulents and other potted flowers, objects of all her care.”

It was in remembering this maternal garden that the desire to paint these portraits of flowers came to her.

See you on Wednesday, November 23rd from 6pm for the opening of “Flore”!