JEAN-CHARLES DE RAVENEL CONTINUED
MDS- Currently, what is your favorite what is your favorite Color?
JC- Blue, any blue, but more than anything the different shades of blue of the Bahamian sea and of the Bahamian sky, at any time of the day.
MDS- What is your favorite Flower?
JC- Peonies, as in these two latest collages for which I used as central elements, original prints from the early 18th Century by German Naturalist and Artist Johann Weinmann.
MDS- What is your favorite Accessory?
JC- A basket full of antique coins bought while travelling. Each one reminding of a happy moment spent with my wife Jackie. I keep them in a basket on my worktable and use them for keeping in place the elements of collages in the making.
MDS- What is your favorite gift to give or to receive?
JC- To give and give again, my grandfather’s book “ Legendary Parties – 1922–1972 “
MDS- Who is your favorite Artist?
JC- Raphaël and his portrait of Balthazar Castiglione at the Louvre.
MDS- What is your favorite Vacation spot?
JC- Having travelled around the world, I have now become an armchair traveller, taking faraway trips while in my Lyford Cay studio overlooking the bay, revisiting Greece and Italy on my own personal “ Grand Tour “.
