jean-louis curtis
The aquarelles of J.W. Hanoteau are the stopover points along a nostalgic and delightful search of lost time. Antique houses, the countryside, old farms, barns with big gray doors, intimate private gardens, roofs partially covered with moss, windows framing interiors that one imagines filled with familiar and loving company, and views, seen through the window panes, of trembling greenery, steaming pastures, far-away woods, an interpretation of the human habitat and of a natural world that wraps around it like connective tissue: such are the themes of J.W. Hanoteau’s watercolors.