OLIVER BEVAN

The Fête Votive page1/2

Restless Crowd

Abrivado

Girls at the Barrier

oil on canvas 50 x 60 cm

oil on canvas 60 x 70 cm

oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm

Anticipation (diptych)

oil on canvas 202 x 100 cm

Bull in the Shadows

At the Corner

Red Ribbon

Out of the Shadows

oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm

oil on canvas 60 x 70 cm

oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm

oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm

Small Bull

Camcorder

Viewpoint

Esplanade

oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm

oil on canvas 20 x 20 cm

oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm

oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm

Every year in August Uzès erects the barricades so that the teams, 'manades' can herd young bulls round the boulevard. Local youths try to distract the bulls and get them away from their minders. Something like this happens in many towns and villages in the Languedoc-Roussillon. (We are less than three hours from the Spanish border.) For me the spectators are as remarkable as the event itself and in some of the diptychs I have opposed the energetic movement of bulls and horses with the static spectators. As always the light and shade steal the show.