Caribbean sketchbooks
"I left art school to sign up in the school of life. I went to the Balearic Islands, then the Canaries. The trade-wind season was starting and I was looking for a ride on a boat."
Abstracts
"After I’d just turned 19, I hitched a boat ride to the Caribbean. Boarding a tiny boat in the Canaries, I disembarked thirty-three days later on the island of Saint Lucia. I then navigated from shore to shore, from one island to another. I painted portraits on the terraces of cafés. Sometimes, a navigator on a stopover would commission me to paint a watercolor of his boat.
Tourism wasn’t developed the way it is today. I’d swap the portraits I did of employees in Caribbean cafés for a few beers, and offer my deckhand services to passing boats. This is how I came to board, as an all-round deckhand, the Vendredi 13, a 39-meter three-masted racing schooner refitted into a charter yacht, co-skippered by Jean-Yves Terlain, its creator, and by Yvon Fauconnier, who became my brothers for life."
Extract from Œuvres vagabondes, 2016, Éditions Gallimard
Works
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First crossing of the Atlantic
Ink and water colours on paper
25 x 40 cm
![Caribbeans 3977](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_carnets_antillais2.jpg?itok=x80xC9dM)
First crossing of the Atlantic
Ink and water colours on paper
25 x 40 cm
![Caribbeans 3979](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_carre_du_vendredi_13.jpg?itok=KsgxiyEK)
Sainte-Anne, Martinique
Ink and water colours on paper
25 x 40 cm
![Caribbeans 3981](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_eric_le_rouge.jpg?itok=-6L0M0Ku)
Fort-de-France
Ink and water colours on paper
25 x 40 cm
![Caribbeans 3983](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_goelette_kebyar.jpg?itok=sCi-bGh6)
Fort-de-France
Ink and water colours on paper
25 x 40 cm
Making-of
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