Peter Buch, Jardí de Peter/Peter's Garden
pictures are screenshots from Serflac's video (see documentation)Rather far away from the urban bustle, Peter's garden is situated on a dead end road past the small community of Pobla de Benifassá in...
View ArticleHyppolite Massé, Maisons aux coquillages/Shell decorated houses
this and the next picture from the website of the historical studygroup OlonaIndeed, Hyppolite Massé (1894-1984), who had a job as a ferryman on the harbour canal in Les Sables d' Olonne, has decorated...
View ArticleKarel Forman, Collage decorated interior
this picture and the next four by Milan Svacinka, courtesy of Pavel Forman, from his websiteAbove picture depicts Karel Forman* in his apartment in the community of Bruntál in the Czech Republic.It's...
View ArticleKitty Harri, Kitty Harri's Sculpture Garden
all pictures courtesy of Kitty Harri, from her FB-pageLife demanded that Kitty Harri should live in many places in the world, supported herself in a variety of jobs, wrote novels (under the name Kitty...
View ArticleDomenico Brizi, Il grottino/ The small cave
Domenico Brizi, spring 2013all pictures by Pavel KonečnýPiansano is a community in the Viterbo area of Italy with slightly over 2000 inhabitants.Life and worksDomenico Brizi (b. 1925), who lives in...
View ArticleLouis Auffret, La campagne/The countryside
pictures in b/w by Marielle Magliozzi, as published in Gazogène nr 21 (2000)Louis Auffret's art environment in southern France, meanwhile no more extant, to my knowledge has only been described by one...
View ArticleJules Damloup, La petite Afrique/Little Africa
pictures (may 2014) by Raija KallioinenLife and worksJules Damloup (1898-1985) who lived in the community of Pithiviers in the Loiret area in France, embellished his garden with sculptures of african...
View ArticleFrancisco Subirá i Beltran, Sculpture garden
all pictures (2014) are screenshots from the video by Sergio Flaquer Carraras (Serflac)With its almost a hundred inhabitants the community of Vilarnadal in Catalonia, Spain, is rather small and apart...
View ArticleEdmundas Vaiciulis, Puodų namas/The Pan House
pictures (june 2014) courtesy of Raija KallioinenZagaré, a town with a history that goes back to the end of the twelfth century, is located in the north of Lithuania, near the frontier with Latvia. One...
View ArticleRoméo Gérolami, Girouettes/Weathervanes
Many french communities have a street named after Jean Jaurès, a well known french politician, but probably only the avenue Jean Jaurès in Bléneau, France, can boast the presence of a site with kinetic...
View ArticleAlain Fornells, Les meubles modestes/The modest furniture
pictures courtesy of Clement Dom (website Hérault Insolite)The small community of Bassan with some 1400 inhabitants, north of Béziers in the Hérault area in southern France, has a modest museum that...
View ArticleUnknown artist, Дом со львом/The Lion House
pictures courtesy of Julia Terekhovawall in the main room with the lionthe doorway leads to the bedroomThe Lion House, a small dwelling with fully decorated walls and ceilings, is a rather unique...
View ArticleHeikki Kylliäinen, Satumökkipiha/Fairytale Cottage Garden
the site as seen from the streetSavitaipale is a small community of some 3800 inhabitants in the South Karelia area in southern Finland.It has a special art environment: a fairytale cottage garden,...
View ArticleLuis Rico Pinilla, Palacios y Catedrales/Palaces and Cathedrals
view from the streetpictures: screenshots from the Serflac video (see documentation)Life and worksBorn in the community of Sanchoñu in the Segovia area, Luis Rico Pinilla (b.1938) at age fifteen moved...
View ArticleJoseph Meyer, Maison aux allures de chateau/Castle-like house
view from the street In my post of april 23, 2011 Visiting some environments in Northern France with Laurent Jacquy this castle-like house constructed by Joseph Meyer (1914 - ?) has been briefly...
View ArticleErich Bödeker, Garten mit Skulpturen/Sculpture garden
picture: Bödeker-Gesellschaft für Naive KunstLife and worksBorn in Recklinghausen (Germany) Erich Bödeker (1904-1971), having completed his primary education at the age of around fourteen, went to work...
View ArticleKhadambi Asalache, Decorated interior
view from the streetHidden behind a big tree, Asalache's house when seen from the outside is an ordinary house in an ordinary South London street. The inside, however, is a little gem of...
View ArticleHenri Galtier, Village occitan de Camarière/Occitan village Camarière
this picture and the next one from the touristic website Découverte34Lunas is a small community of some 650 inhabitants located in the Hérault area in southern France.One of its inhabitants, visual...
View ArticleJoaquim Gifreu i Riera, Miniature constructs and scenes
view from the streetNot what one would expect to see in a decent neighbourhood in the centre of a spanish city, but Figueres (Catalonia, Spain) has it: an art environment with a large number of...
View ArticleAlexander Emelyanov, Naiv architecture-sculpture outdoors, frescoes on walls...
self-portraitall pictures courtesy of Alexander EmelyanovLife and worksBorn in 1964 in Tashkent, Russia, Alexander Emelyanov in the nineteen-eighties studied (children) medicine, and then settled as a...
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