In this work, a strange couple attempts to embrace. It's a voluptuous woman and a skeletal man. All this takes place in a surprising garden, with a cast of peculiar characters. "In the Garden" is an allegory of departure. The blue, skeletal man must bid farewell to the Earth, that universal mother. In a multicolored enchantment, fantastic beings, sometimes half-man, half-insect, are invited to the ceremony. A tree whose trunk seems engraved with faces speaks of ancestors and the past. Opposite it, a cosmonaut prepares to fly off to a certain beyond, almost a future... Artichokes, a symbol of joie de vivre, join in this joyously funereal celebration. The work is whimsical and inspired by the world of Hieronymus Bosch. Patrick Gourgouillat's work is about a major event in our lives: the loss of a loved one. As usual, he opts for color and a dynamic composition to speak of serious matters. This work was painted on paper with a water-thinned felt-tip pen (a la aquarelle). The colors were then fixed with markers. The work is framed with a passe-partout.
