When it brought out a paper specifically designed for oil painting in 2012, ARCHES® Huile, the Arches paper mill revolutionised and simplified the practice for many artists who like to use oil paints.

For centuries engraving and etching were the methods used to produce maps and atlases. But what we have here is not a simple map of the real world – instead we have a utopian version of a country characterised by a reality full of hope and humorous fiction.

It’s art in motion. To grasp that, all you have to do is sit or stand – it doesn’t matter which – with your eyes riveted on one of my pictures. Quickly, sometimes very quickly, the world tips out of kilter. Some views will just be impressed by the exercise in patience that it took for the artist to invent these shapes repeated ad infinitum and which, taken together, give the work a whole other dimension.

Pablo Flaiszman is an artist from Buenos Aires in Argentina. He was drawn to art and drawing in childhood, and from the age of 20 trained in painting and drawing with Luisa Reisner, who quickly noticed his talent.

Franco-Cuban artist Cristina Escobar was named winner of the DDESSINPARIS Prize 2024. This prize offers her the opportunity to go and work in a month-long creative residency at the Villa Saint-Louis Ndar in Senegal in 2025.

An exceptional exhibition devoted to T’ang Haywen will be running from 17 June 2024 at the Musée Guimet (the National Museum of Asian Arts) in Paris. Entitled “Un peintre chinois à Paris” (A Chinese Painter in Paris), it reveals the tremendous talent of a great Chinese artist and contemporary of Zao Wou-Ki.

Artist Ayda-Su Nuroglu invites us to her exhibition entitled “ÉCLOSION” which is taking place from 19 April to 26 May 2024 at the Chapelle des Pénitents in Aniane, France.

There is now a new addition to the ARCHES® range, a hot pressed ARCHES® Aquarelle travel journal sketchbook.