“Here is my life, perhaps my death bed.”
- Dated: January 2014
- Media: La Voix du Nord
Here is my life, perhaps my death bed
I ‘d always heard about Le Touquet from my grandfather who came from ‘Le Nord’. I was born in ‘Le Berry’ but as an adolescent, the first thing I did was to come up to ‘Le Nord’ to discover my roots. I took on seasonal jobs, all the while painting on the side, and was spotted by a gallery”. Since then Alain Godon has travelled, a lot, and is increasingly becoming the” little darling” of art dealers. He lives in London, exhibits in Miami, New York, Las Vegas… “Of course over there they haven’t heard of Le Touquet, this corner of ‘Le Nord’, but I have always continued to paint this magical place, this incredible place, my Eldorado. Hair in the wind, his career as an artist will continue with the needle of his compass unfailingly pointing towards ‘Le Nord’. Happy to bring Bernard Buffet’s works here for exhibition by the end of the year, he claims to “frankly be in love”: “Le Touquet is my life, my friends. It’s the morning encounter with the one-eyed seal – I swear it’s true-, the flight of the wild geese – the beating of their wings mingling with the sound of their breath. The longer it goes on, the more I say to myself that may almost buy a place here to die.”