01 Marine Painting - Dorothy Braund, With Footnotes, #263

Antoine Renault, France

Quincy Davis

Acrylic on Canvas

23.6 W x 19.7 H x 1.6 in

Private collection

Quincy Rose Davis (born May 18, 1995) is a surfer born in Montauk, New York. She started surfing when she was seven years old. With the shore as her backyard, Davis spent long summer days at the beach with her family who were always surfing. 

Davis started attending local surf events with older friends and would sometimes compete herself, but always against the boys because there weren't any other girls in her age division. Her amateur career started when she came home with trophies and her mother decided to enter her into more events. Davis credits her family and friends for her constant surfing inspiration and support. 

Davis has passions outside of the surf world that include music, Christmas movies and fashion. More on Quincy Rose Davis

Antoine Renault is a French artist, based in Amsterdam. Renault’s painting suspends time, catches the instant, the souvenir. Not in a nostalgic way, but to dip or dive in. Antoine Renault went to painting from photography he improved in the 80’s in New York. Back to France, husband and father of 3, he catches a brush for the first time from his grandmother who discovered the fun of painting at the age of 70. She is the one who initiated him, allowing him to enter this very intimate bubble. Her work was a testimonial of her little pleasures, pictures of her world, while he tried to catch the dune, sunsets and the warm blues of a summer at his dear island of Noirmoutier. It’s in Barcelona, close to Sorolla’s shores for some years, that a passion for light and water develops. Reflections and transparencies become his favorite themes. « Light is my real motivation. Water is my favorite catalyst. Both are the guiding threads of my inspiration ». Renault focusses on slow motion atmosphere, time still on the beach. His work constantly plays with the borders of realism. Yet, get closer to the canvas and visible brushstrokes push the reality back, offering space for emotions and echo. Born in Nantes in 1963, Antoine Renault is a self-taught painter. His series « Ocean Paintings » brings him international recognition in 2012. More on Antoine Renault

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