A Question for Mark Hollis, because My Father Burnt The Bridges

    

Mark Hollis TOMORROW STARTED Oil Painting, This is the End, Talk Talk

    

This is the last video you will see about this oil painting, so if you have any question, please, it's the right time to ask.

MARK HOLLIS 1984 Interview, French Translation FOLLOW-UP, It's My Life V...

   

This is the follow-up for the non-French people, some explanation about this interview. Something which we should have known before...

OIL PAINTING Stairs & Curtains: Mark Hollis' Theatrical Tomorrow Started

  

A free painting lesson, 

or how to be totally freaking out about David Bowie's death... :-(

Mark Hollis, David Bowie, Keeping our Legends Present & Alive, The Next ...

    

Not much to say on this one...

Mark Hollis' LAST INTERVIEW Visual & Organic Music, Rob Young, Talk Talk

  

A video related to the Spirit of Talk Talk book, a new parallel between music and my art, a lot of excitement! :-)

It seems more and more obvious to me that there is a very close link between fine Art and Music. The Talk Talk Music is probably the most visual one I worked on. Wish I had the time to do more and quicker... 

Another thing to work on: taking the time to enjoy life without feeling guilty.

Mark Hollis SPIRIT OF EDEN, An Achievement for All of Us, Talk Talk Inte...

That is an achievement!
Not
only the Spirit of Eden Album, but also the fact that I am posting this
video, because I had to edit it on a program that I didn't know at all!

If Mark Hollis did put so many efforts, and such a total commitment
in his wonderful Album Spirit of Eden, I thought that I could put as
much passion in this video. I hope that my lack of technical knowledge
won't distract you from the main subject, which is: how Mark Hollis
brought to us an example to follow.
If all the artists in this world
were creating according to what they have in their gut, we would live
in such a more beautiful and wonderful world! And it is not a question
of skills, it is more a matter of honesty and conviction, a matter of
great Passion.
Only one word or two: Thank you to Mark Hollis for inspiring us so much!
You will find the original interview here:
https://youtu.be/2c9KEsyy6V0

You will find the beginning of my thoughts here:
https://youtu.be/E9Q-jRqSUNc

I am a little obsessed by this subject, so you will find my video about the Texture and Freedom here:
https://youtu.be/D2ocCPba_gU

DISCLAIMER:
This is NOT a sponsored video. I only talk about what I love the most,
and I am absolutely obsessed with the creative process obviously.

High Quality Candy by MARK HOLLIS Talk Talk The Party's Over Review

I think it is time to go a little deeper in the process of creation. The Party's Over, 1st Talk Talk Album, is not rated correctly according to me, chiefly when we listen to songs like Have You Heard The News or Candy.

I am trying here to explain how high the quality is and why I love these songs so much. I don't mind talking alone, I just wish that I could at least get one person interested in this wonderful subject. And if there is more, even better. Wish I could convince a whole crowd! Fortunately, I am not the only Talk Talk lover, we are already many.

One Year of Marvel with Mark Hollis, My Paintings & Talk Talk Music

On November the 9th, it was the one year Anniversary of my Music, Painting, Mark Hollis and Talk Talk videos! 

Do you think I am bored? I'm not. Do you think I am crazy? Probably yes :-) But I am a very obstinate person, and I like to understand things. So here I am, analyzing the Mark Hollis method and Music, and imagining how I could translate all this in Painting. It forces me to think outside of the box. I am only at the very beginning, so far, I am just describing and showing on my canvas. But I think that this second year will be the time to explore even further and try new ways, new techniques. 

I am not done, I am maybe very slow to progress, if I could spend my whole days on this, probably I would be much further now. But I am not in the rush, sometimes, the journey is also the destination, I need to digest, and so far, I've been having a wonderful, wonderful journey.

I want to say, thank you Mark Hollis, thank you Talk Talk for offering me this wonderful treasure which amazes me every day, which makes me feel beloved by the Music, and blessed in my work. Thank you.

MARK HOLLIS, JENNIBELLIE & How To Find Our Own Style in All Arts

Creating from the heart, this is the best way to reveal your style which is already in you.

Jennibellie is a very sympathetic English artist who had the kindness to include my work in her blog a while ago. Thanks to her last video, she allowed me to understand a little better and partly why I am creating this and now. 

Am I comparing Mark Hollis in Music to Pablo Picasso and David Hockney in Painting? Yes. Mark Hollis is, according to me, a very underrated artist who showed a kind of similar creating process as these masters’ one.

MARK HOLLIS & The Background MUSIC, The Guardian 2013 Talk Talk Interview

A very complicated subject...

Let me know what you think about it, please, I am curious...

Mark Hollis Talk Talk Tomorrow Started OIL PAINT Colors Part 1

When I paint like this, it is not only applying colors and using a technique, I also must convey the passion and the loving heart that I can hear and feel in this specific Music.

MARK HOLLIS Fourviere Interview Translation To English & A Little Change

And I did it again! But this time, it is from French to English. I didn't realized until someone asked me, that most people couldn't understand this interview because of the translator's voice covering Mark's one. It is very short, but still, it is very interesting. The ancient theater in Fourviere is absolutely amazing!

You will also find here my considerations about the Sacred Music: Talk Talk, Pink Floyd.

And finally, I explain a little change in my way of working, with an artistic project to come.

It is hard to be passionate about Art and Music, and still having to work everyday like if Art didn't exist, or almost. That is what I want to change too...

MARK HOLLIS Talk Talk SPIRIT Of EDEN The Music Of My Childhood

This video will unfortunately not be visible in many countries and I apologize for that. I will post in a few days a "US" version without the music, which is a true crime... :-(

MARK HOLLIS Texture, Freedom, Spontaneity, Attitude, Perfectionism

It may look simple, it is not. 

In Music as in Painting, even by using all these ingredients, you still need to have some talent to achieve such a result.

Every time I think I understood the recipe and how the magic works, I discover something new which let me in awe...

I suppose that is what we call the genius? And the talent?

MARK HOLLIS Music Evoking Images Vinyl Interview 1986 TALK TALK

No images, no painting without Music, and not any Music, but some specific Musics which evoke images.

Here is how it happens...

MARK HOLLIS Vinyl Interview Bartok & The Colour Of Spring, Debussy Talk ...

A few considerations on Classical Musics.

I am not a specialist, but still, I can love some of them too...

Mark Hollis Tomorrow Started Painting STRETCHING The Canvas, Talk Talk

I can't wait to start this new painting! If I was not so buried under my work, it would be already done and I would already be on the next one.

But I am going to enjoy every second of it. 

It will be about this amazing song named "Tomorrow Started" by Talk Talk (Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollis), that you will originally find on the It's My Life Album.

This song conveys so many images in my mind, that beside its beauty, I had to put these images on a canvas especially when you think that most of these images have been in my mind since more than 30 years! It is more than time to express myself with this.

As weird as it may sound, I don't approach all of this as any fan would do. Even though I have the highest respect for fans of all sorts, as long as they remain polite, decent and nice.  I have rather the feeling that I am in a kind of artistic research after having discovered an infinitely huge treasure that was waiting there just in front of me during all these years, and that I could only really see just now, maybe because I am older?

And my mission is to show this treasure to the World. 

It is there: beautiful, fantastic, smart, so, so clever, so delicate and deep, so sensitive and full of Love. How could I miss it before? How can some people still not see it?

I recommend that you go by all means listen to this song, Tomorrow Started, listen to the sound of the lyrics too, appreciate the beauty of the voice, don't go too deep down in the meaning of the song, otherwise you are going to be depressed, just enjoy the moment of this marvel.

Violin on Mark Hollis or Talk Talk MUSIC, Morally Correct? Ramblings...

I think that I just wanted to honor the Music and the people that I love.

Music is meant to be played, and as of genius it can be, it is not supposed to remain locked under glass like a master piece in a famous museum and being forgotten there...

I wanted to see or rather hear how it would resonate live on my boulevard in Los Angeles, even though it is not a Los Angeles Music.

But when we know how much work and thoughts Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Greene did put on the Laughing Stock album, we can start wondering if adding a violin or any other instrument on the top of that is such a good idea and morally correct...?

I was rambling yesterday night, and today, it was my violinist David Strother who started rambling by email as well.

What are we supposed to do?

Still now, we don't know, I am not even sure that something of Talk Talk or Mark Hollis will be played tomorrow. I want to be correct, but it makes me feel very sad too... 

I just wanted to know how it was like to hear this music for real.

Mark Hollis The AFTER THE FLOOD HYPNOTIZING Effect Talk Talk Laughing Stock

Am I the only one to be hypnotized by a song? 

But it is not any song, I suggest that you sit by listening to it, it is more safe :-)

I apologize for the wrong pronunciation of "hypnotized" on my video, I was probably so mesmerized that I didn't remember how to speak English! :-)

It is not easy to talk about things like that, because I take the risk to be considered as crazy or totally eccentric (which is actually the case, it seems, according to many people). But I thought, if at least one person has the same feeling that I have here, maybe this won't be so stupid.

There are so many things that we ignore about human nature. After all, Mark Hollis studied psychology at the University, and even if he finally worked in Music, it doesn't mean that he didn't have the time to learn how to hypnotize people with sounds... Or maybe he has this talent without even knowing it?

I am trying here to seize the imperceptible. Isn't it what Art is about? Isn't it what Paul Klee was trying to do on his paintings? I am trying to explain on images here what I can hear and see, and feel in Mark Hollis and Talk Talk Musics, but I have difficulties to find the words, because maybe the words don't even exist for that...