Estuary Arts Trail Tourism

To begin this route, we suggest you start from the community of communes of the estuary.

A few steps from the starting point, you can admire Goddog's work on the rural animation center. Damien Mauro known as GoddoG has always been keen to nourish his curiosity and open-mindedness. Self-taught, his passions for architecture, nature, literature as well as his passion for sharing fuel and enrich his art made of movements, and his daily life anchored in encounters. For more than 15 years - Damien aka GoddoG - has devoted himself to painting through abstraction. Rigorous, this discipline allows him to refine his artistic trajectory made of curves, lines, softness and rupture in order to bring the public to greater attention and contemplation. His work develops around the link and the fracture, creating direct contact with the public. GoddoG plays with the shackles. The movement of his paintings embodies a spontaneity accessible to all. His mixed technique and the mastery of his gesture allow him to create works with accomplished plays of textures, to gain effects and give substance to certain figurative elements. His universe is dreamlike and leads us both to calming the mind and to interaction. For the next work, head towards the village hall.

Arriving in the city center, at the village hall, discover one of PEC's works. PEC always drew on school benches and it was quite natural that he started graffiti in 1989 in his hometown from Lyon. He developed his art through his nights out and his experiences. Constantly questioning himself to find his style in line with the urban environment. His all-consuming passion led him to paint and hold exhibitions in Paris, Bangkok, London, Mexico, Barcelona, ​​Ibiza, Colombia, etc. PEC is above all an artist who uses the city as a gallery where his colorful works brighten up the daily lives of the inhabitants. Using a multitude of techniques and supports, PEC never ceases to surprise you at the corner of a street, a highway...Continue your route towards Blaye until the roundabout at the Braud exit.

Arriving at the roundabout, it is on one of the walls of the old medical office that we find Rouge's work. In 2014, Rouge chose a name that she wanted to be close to her street work: commune, appropriable, multiple. In Rouge's practice there is the idea that an image is precious, and that making one of quality, that is to say thick in narration, in pictorial generosity and in poetry, is is a rare celebration to which she likes to devote time, and whose conception is forged through contact and exploration of its surroundings. Convinced by an accessible art caught in the fabric of the world, she has worked since her beginnings through collage or frescoes in the city, alongside rigorous studio practice. The wall, the neighborhood, like the canvas and the paper offer him the opportunity for figurations that are never symbolic but always narrative. His compositions offer a tension towards the manifesto, the fable or the poem, with attention to framing inherited from video, and always animated by the pleasure of painting in itself. To continue the circuit, at the roundabout, take the direction of the power station.

After 3 km, turn right and follow the direction of Terres d'Oiseaux. At the port, head towards the parking lot at the foot of the panoramic tower. You will find Lloeil's work on one of the surrounding buildings. A fan of graphic design and solid colors, gradient colors or visual frames made of lines or points, rhythm is the conductor and the very essence of Loeil's compositions and work. After a period of plastic research on canvas working in series on identical formats with stages of saturation by stratum stopped at different times in the production process, he purifies his productions and now intends to move towards the minimal and the essential by using its gimmicks* of achievements and by highlighting games of depth and radiance.

Take the road again towards Saint-Ciers sur Gironde. Arriving at the stop sign, turn right towards the city center. You will find Albert's work at the bend of an alley opposite the town hall. For several years, walls in France and elsewhere have been covered with a face, imagined and created by Alber. Alber gradually detaches himself from the codes of graffiti in search of a more personal expression. From graffiti, it retains the fluidity of the gesture which traces lines and runs on the surface, but the lines and shapes come together in a figurative representation. The application of spray paint gives relief and light to these assemblages revealing a face of disproportionate proportions, a fixed blue gaze under heavy eyelids. This character becomes the signature of Alber who, from graffiti artist becomes street artist preserving his freedom to paint where he wants, when he wants.

Continue your way towards St Aubin de Blaye. Head towards the medical office, you can park in the city stadium parking lot to discover the work of Jean Rooble. For Jean Rooble, it's all a question of meeting people. The graffiti and visual artist tells the story of humans through hyper-realistic, spray-painted portraits. It's difficult to miss the monumental frescoes of Bordeaux without stopping for a moment to admire their details. The artist works from his own photos and reproduces, down to the smallest pores of their skin, the models he paints. “Every time it’s a real encounter, it’s often people who are close to me, it’s intimate and it’s engaging,” says the graffiti artist from his workshop in Bordeaux Lac. His computer is open to Photoshop, which he uses to prepare his projects. To his left, the wall is covered in spray paint. 25 years have passed since he started spray painting, to which he has devoted himself full time for fifteen years.

For the next step, we will meet you in Val de Livenne, and more precisely at the Marcillac distillery to discover the works of Charles Foussard.Charles FOUSSARD is an iconoclastic artist, figurative and abstract street artist with his feet in the sand since his earliest days. Early childhood spent between the island of Reunion and Bordeaux, Charles Foussard nourished himself with the most beautiful things that Nature had to offer: the unexpected, the spectacular, the energy and the luxuriance of shapes and colors. The desire to transcribe this vision of the world embellished by numerous travels arose in the 2000s when the blockhouses of the Landes beaches caught his keen eye as a graffiti artist. The immediate click took him into a completely different style, far from the graffiti codes that marked his adolescence. Shimmering, intriguingly fluid, mineral and organic, his surrealist compositions immediately detonate and surprise social networks which propel him to the forefront. This self-taught man won the 2016 Bernard Magrez Grand Prix. If in his compositions the vegetation is always as opulent and the undulating reefs, Charles Foussard nevertheless excludes the human presence, identified by good-natured characters named by his own words "Pépouzes". They find their place as being the action of man, even his very inaction and become allegories of the human condition.

Continue your path towards Etauliers where you will find Dawal's work. You can park on the main street. After beginnings in the wastelands of Lille, Dawal developed a technique in a style teeming with details and rich in symbols, sometimes tinged with humor and irony. His graphic universe, colorful and lively, was built during paintings in public spaces during nocturnal sessions in Athens. Very quickly, his style is oriented on a surrealist basis, which draws its influences from the street and childhood memories. Today based in Paris, he continues his research on acrylic canvas and spray walls, always aspiring to escape the mind in narrative compositions.

To continue, take the road towards Cartelègue where we find the work of Levalet. You can park in the parking lot of the village hall opposite. Charles LEVAL is an artist specializing in collage. Charles Leval, known as Levalet, was born in 1988 in Epinal. He grew up in Guadeloupe, a region where he came into contact with urban culture, then the visual arts. He continued his studies of visual arts in Strasbourg; his work, then more focused on video, is nourished by an assiduous theatrical practice. He obtained the aggregation in 2012, the year when his work began to take place in the streets of Paris and elsewhere. In 2013, he began exhibiting in galleries and participating in international events. Levalet's work is above all a work of drawing and installation. He stages his characters drawn in Indian ink in public space, in a game of visual and semantic dialogue with the present environment. The characters interact with the architecture and unfold in situations often bordering on the absurd.

For the last stage, we meet you at Saint Androny where you can admire Kashink's work on the school wall. Kashink draws its inspiration from the tradition of masks, which takes us back to a form of transcendence of the human . This tradition exists in all continents of the world, in Europe for carnivals, in Asia for opera, theater or folk festivals. In Africa, masks are used to accompany rituals or ceremonies, the same is true in many ancestral cultural traditions. The mask is a metaphor, it serves both to hide the face of the person wearing it, but also to reveal it, allowing us to question social codes, to create a link to the invisible. Makeup is also a way of creating this bond. For this project, Kaskink draws inspiration from these traditions to create enigmatic and colorful portraits, full of life.