Des 4 elements, l'eau est celui à partir
duquel Fred exprime son art : la peinture.
Etendues oceanes impetueuses, ondes douces, impressions de voyages appellent son regard,
insufflent de vibrantes emotions à ce navigateur emerite.
Sa peinture est Genereuse et sincere, elle prete a rever, à s'etonner, à suggerer et
plus encore a s'emerveiller. Ainsi nait la rencontre entre cet autodidacte et des
personnalites les plus diverses. Le pinceau dirige l'imagination, creation intime
d'aquarelles aux subtiles transparences, d'empatement au couteau, au dela des modes,
valeur intemporelle, seductrice d'un public varié.
Fred connut un jour l'abime qui se manifeste en une maladie insidieuse, qui impose
remission et combativité quotidienne, une fiévreuse appetence de peinture s'eveille
alors : ardeur et gourmandise en sont les ingredients essentiels. le resultat est sans
commune mesure, reflet de l'existant qui alterne ombre et luminosité.
Des lors honorer l'eau sous toutes ses formes n'apparait-il pas comme le signe perceptible
d'un hymne à la vie ?
M.H. Hardouin
Frederic Woehrle dit FRED
Ne a Belleville sur Meuse en 1950 il passe son enfance en Allemagne. Apres
des etudes d'economie, il fait de la couleur son metier, travaillant dans le packaging,
l'imprimerie et la fabrication de materiaux pour artistes.
Des l'age de 14 ans, il entreprend une recherche deliberement personnelle et autodidacte
tendant a perfectionner une technique tres impulsive du dessin, de l'aquarelle et de
l'huile qu'il met au service de son appetit d'eau salee.
Il se passionne en effet pour la mer, et, de croisières en competitions a bord de ses
voiliers, il acquiert une grande experience du milieu marin.
Ses oeuvres ont fait l'objet de nombreuses expositions personnelles et groupees et sont
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Of
the four elements, it is around water that fred has built his life and his art-in
painting.
streches of turbulant seas, sea-faring scene-these rivetted his attention, filling this
accomplished and experienced navigator with profond emotion.
His painting is sincere and generous. It inspires the viewer of dream, to marvel, to use
his imagination and to marvel again. It is here that the meeting of minds occurs between
this selftaught artist and the most diverse of persons.
The brush leads the imagination, creating water colours of great subtlety and the wildness
of the oil painter's knife achieves impressions that transcend fashion, are of great
valueand of very wide appeal.
At one time, Fred faced the abyss of an insidious illness which meant dailybatles followed
by remissions. A fierce crawing to paint was aroused, ardour and compulsion being its main
charateristics. The result is difficult to describe, it is the reflection of existence
itself which hovers between light and shade.
To do honour to water in all form-could this not be seen as a hymn to life ?
M.H Hardouin
translate : Pat. Green
Frederic Woehrle so-called FRED
Born in Belleville-sur-Meuse in 1950, he
spends his childhoot in Germany. After economics studies, he makes colour its craft,
working in the packaging industrie, printing and in the artist material manufacturing.
Since the age of 14, he undertakes a deliberatly personal and self-taught artistic search,
leading to improve a very impulsive drawing technique, of water and oil painting, serving
his desire of "salted water".
Indeed, he is passioned by the sea, and from cruising to competing on his own sailboat, he
acquired a wide experience of the marine circles.
His works have been exposed in various individual or grouped exhibitions, and have joined
several private collections |