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Chemin faisant, les grolles
A figurative painting series on walking and presence
Chemin faisant, les grolles is a series of small-format figurative paintings dedicated to walking.
Not to the destination,
but to that precise moment when the body moves forward
without narrating itself.
Anonymous shoes — worn, placed, sometimes hesitant —
become the true figures of the painting.
Each work is a fragment.
Together, they form a silent trajectory.
In this series, the human figure is absent, yet never erased.
It is suggested through what carries it:
shoes, footsteps, traces of passage.
Walking becomes a language.
A movement without emphasis,
a way of inhabiting the world from the ground up —
through use, contact, and repetition.
Chemin faisant, les grolles belongs to a figurative research
where the body remains present
even when it is no longer visible.
Silent companions of so many walked paths, the shoes lay down their weariness with a weathered elegance.
The creased leather tells tales of miles traveled, of quick or lazy walks, of sunlit halts and shaded crossings.
Beneath their white stitching lies a whole life of footsteps, ready to wander again or savor the suspended moment.
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Technical details
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Year: 2025
Support: Canvas on wooden stretcher bars
Framing: unframed (coaching available on request)
Finish: Satin anti-UV varnish
Certificate: Original signed artwork, delivered with certificate of authenticity
Artistic approach
With "CHEMIN FAISANT, MES GROLLES 1", Alain Rouschmeyer captures the quiet soul of everyday objects.
These seemingly simple shoes become silent witnesses of a life journey, carriers of invisible stories and forgotten dust.
The minimalist, almost graphic composition isolates the noble wear of the leather, magnifying this duo resting on the cool tiles, offering the viewer a gentle meditation on the passage of time and the traces left behind
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Placed upon worn stones, her shoes breathe quiet adventure.
The laces still brush each other, like a silent promise of crossed paths and softly trodden grounds.
In the shade of the foliage, the worn leather absorbs stories and suspended moments, weaving nature into human wanderings.
Technical details
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Year: 2025
Support: Canvas on wooden stretcher bars
Framing: unframed (coaching available on request)
Finish: Satin anti-UV varnish
Certificate: Original signed artwork, delivered with certificate of authenticity
Artistic approach
In "CHEMIN FAISANT, SES GROLLES 1", Alain Rouschmeyer delves into the poetry of modest traces left by the walk.
The abandoned shoes become portraits without faces, carrying within them the memory of passages, pauses, and fresh departures.
The mineral background, inhabited by moss and subtle plants, converses with the soft darkness of the leather: a silent alchemy between humankind and the earth.
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Aligned on the threshold of a graphic grid, these shoes tell the story of a passage.
Slightly battered, proud of their journey, they rest beside a lost marble — a fragment of tender childhood memories.
Through this simple pause, the canvas whispers a world of invisible imprints.
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Technical details
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Year: 2025
Support: Canvas on wooden stretcher bars
Framing: unframed (coaching available on request)
Finish: Satin anti-UV varnish
Certificate: Original signed artwork, delivered with certificate of authenticity
Artistic approach
With "CHEMIN FAISANT, MES GROLLES 2", Alain Rouschmeyer continues his tribute to silent companions of the road.
Here, the industrial grid beneath, the playful roundness of a marble, and the worn leather weave a graphic dialogue between precision, memory, and tenderness.
Every detail becomes a soft echo of journeys, moments of waiting, and hopes, crystallized in the suspended breath of the canvas.
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From the outset, the works in Chemin faisant, les grolles
were conceived as a unified series.
Identical formats,
a constant visual rhythm,
a fragmented narrative.
Each painting can exist on its own,
but the series reaches its full strength
when displayed as a diptych, a triptych,
or as a complete ensemble.
Acrylic on canvas
40 × 40 cm
Original artworks
Series: Chemin faisant, les grolles
Contemporary figurative painting
Two black ballet flats, resting on a golden weave, tell a silent story.
Light as a thought, they reveal, through their flower-etched insoles, the tenderness of a journey lived.
A quiet pause, almost a breath, before stepping back into life's dance.
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Technical details
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Year: 2025
Support: Canvas on wooden stretcher bars
Framing: unframed (coaching available on request)
Finish: Satin anti-UV varnish
Certificate: Original signed artwork, delivered with certificate of authenticity
Artistic approach
With "CHEMIN FAISANT, SES GROLLES 2", Alain Rouschmeyer continues his poetic exploration of everyday footsteps.
These simple, delicate feminine shoes, laid on a woven backdrop of light, evoke personal journeys, intimate pauses, and whispered departures.
Every mark, every floral detail inside, becomes a gentle testament to a life moving humbly and beautifully forward.
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Two tired yet vibrant orange sneakers rest on weathered wooden planks.
Their energy still pulses, blending mischief and tenderness — living traces of an eternal youth.
Each fold, each fray whispers yesterday’s adventures and today’s departures.
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Technical details
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Year: 2025
Support: Canvas on wooden stretcher bars
Framing: unframed (coaching available on request)
Finish: Satin anti-UV varnish
Certificate: Original signed artwork, delivered with certificate of authenticity
Artistic approach
With "CHEMIN FAISANT, MES GROLLES 3", Alain Rouschmeyer weaves once again an intimate bond between abandoned objects and life's imprints.
These bright orange Converse sneakers bear the weight of traveled paths, challenges embraced, and the playful dance of light and shadow on aged wood.
The artist pays tribute to life etched in the smallest everyday details, using a vibrant, soulful palette.
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Two black pointed shoes rest on a battered steel plate,
flanked by two tiny, abandoned toy cars.
A fleeting echo of hurried steps, childhood games, and wandering paths,
bathed in raw, unfiltered light.
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Technical details
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Year: 2025
Support: Canvas on wooden stretcher bars
Framing: unframed (coaching available on request)
Finish: Satin anti-UV varnish
Certificate: Original signed artwork, delivered with certificate of authenticity
Artistic approach
With "CHEMIN FAISANT, SES GROLLES 3", Alain Rouschmeyer captures a suspended moment where human traces meet the remnants of play.
These black heels, silent witnesses of fleeting passages or forgotten ceremonies, confront a child's whimsical universe —
a tender tension between adulthood's solemnity and childhood’s freedom.
The textured surface vibrates with this poetic contrast.
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Chemin faisant begins as a practice. Walking, observing, remaining available. A large part of my work is born from walking, without any immediate pictorial intention. I walk, I watch the bodies I encounter, their way of standing, of waiting, of moving through space. These human postures become sketches, quick notations captured on the spot. They form a silent reserve from which the work is built.
The paintings come afterwards. They extend these sketches without seeking to reproduce a specific scene. What matters to me is the attitude, the relationship between the body and space, the ordinary presence of a human being within an environment. Painting does not tell what happened. It holds what was seen.
The grolles then appear as an essential detail. An infinitesimal part of the itinerary. What touches the ground first. What commits the body to walking and makes encounter possible. They are the point of contact between the human being and the world, between the observed posture and the painting to come.
The Chemin faisant series does not speak of movement as a narrative. It is interested in what makes movement possible. In each painting, the anecdote is reduced. A pair of shoes. A pause. A moment of suspension. But behind this fragment lies the path taken, the bodies encountered, the accumulated sketches, the gaze trained over time.
The grolles are not the central subject. They are a threshold. They mark the entry into the work. They remind us that painting often begins with a walk, a look, a posture briefly glimpsed and then held.
Two worn leather shoes stand on pristine tiles,
one brightened by a splash of orange, the other tamed by beige.
At their feet, little treasures of the path:
pinecones and winged seeds,
silent witnesses to discreet wanderings and quiet adventures.
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Technical details
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Year: 2025
Support: Canvas on wooden stretcher bars
Framing: unframed (coaching available on request)
Finish: Satin anti-UV varnish
Certificate: Original signed artwork, delivered with certificate of authenticity
Artistic approach
With "CHEMIN FAISANT, MES GROLLES 4", Alain Rouschmeyer continues his tender exploration of everyday traces,
where the wear of objects becomes a living memory.
Each sole, each crease tells the story of a singular journey,
through seasons and fleeting emotions.
The scattered natural elements seal this intimate dialogue between humankind and earth.
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Two pointed black pumps,
left behind on a floor brushed with gray light,
kissed by a vibrant flash of red lace.
They whisper of an escape,
a promise, a barely touched secret.
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Technical details
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Year: 2025
Support: Canvas on wooden stretcher bars
Framing: unframed (coaching available on request)
Finish: Satin anti-UV varnish
Certificate: Original signed artwork, delivered with certificate of authenticity
Artistic approach
"CHEMIN FAISANT, SES GROLLES 4" belongs to the series of intimate pathways,
where each pair of shoes reflects a silent story.
Here, femininity steps in with boldness and mystery,
weaving between elegance, abandon, and suggested sensuality.
The red lace, vibrant against the black leather,
offers a striking counterpoint to the soft disappearance of steps.
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Two sneakers left behind on a crosswalk, as if resting between two worlds. Asphalt becomes a stage, shoes turn into memory. These worn shoes speak silently of the journey of their wearer.
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Technical details
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Year: 2025
Support: Canvas on wooden stretcher bars
Framing: unframed (coaching available on request)
Finish: Satin anti-UV varnish
Certificate: Original signed artwork, delivered with certificate of authenticity
Artistic approach
This painting is part of the Chemin faisant series, focusing on movement, traversed spaces, and familiar objects turned witnesses. This pair of black sneakers evokes presence and absence, the subtle poetry of a path walked. The tight framing and detailed rendering of the pavement highlight a raw intimacy, where the ordinary becomes lyrical.
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Two sandals placed side by side, resting on a woven wire chair seat bathed in sunlight. A black polka-dot fabric evokes a breezy summer dress. Everything is held in this simple pause, a moment after walking, where invisible footprints linger.
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Technical details
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Year: 2025
Support: Canvas on wooden stretcher bars
Framing: unframed (coaching available on request)
Finish: Satin anti-UV varnish
Certificate: Original signed artwork, delivered with certificate of authenticity
Artistic approach
The fifth piece in the “Chemin faisant, les grolles” series, this painting pays tribute to everyday footwear—objects filled with personal history, symbols of journeys taken. These Bocage sandals, rendered with both precision and tenderness, rest on a tautly woven seat highlighted by sunlight. The polka-dot fabric and the linear structure of the chair evoke the paths crossed and the traces we leave behind.
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A wooden floor with distinct grain, two elegant black mules casually placed, and a red mechanical mouse that seems to emerge from a childhood memory. This peaceful, top-down scene carries the trace of poetic everyday life. The unexpected toy adds a hint of fantasy and playfulness to the composition.
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Technical details
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Year: 2025
Support: Canvas on wooden stretcher bars
Framing: unframed (coaching available on request)
Finish: Satin anti-UV varnish
Certificate: Original signed artwork, delivered with certificate of authenticity
Artistic approach
Part of the series "Chemin faisant, les grolles" (Wandering, the Shoes), this painting explores the symbolic resonance of footwear. Here, the black Robert Clergerie mules evoke refinement and confident femininity. The small toy mouse gently disrupts the composition, bringing a whimsical narrative twist to the piece and evoking memory and imagination.
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individual acquisitions,
or the possibility of acquiring works as an ensemble,
you are welcome to contact me directly.