What would the sky be like without these shifting cotton balls, so poetic and vital to the planet? Lawyer and novelist Mathieu Simonet is campaigning to give them legal status. We need to realise their value in order to protect them, as clouds are also threatened by global warming. He has even established an International Cloud Day on 29 March and was received at Matignon! This has sparked a desire to organise a meeting with Frank Follaco.
With his colour palette, he paints clouds. On the ceiling, on the walls of a bedroom, in the stairwell of a palace. In a windowless basement room or under the eaves. He paints skies. Often blue, but never flat. With his brushstrokes, he gives them movement, as if they were coming and going. Vaporous and free. Each sky is unique. The atmosphere is different and changing. An invitation to lie down on the bed as if on the grass, to contemplate them. Escape guaranteed.
Whether in this bright sky, where you can sense a storm in the distance. Or this other one, spiral-shaped, swirling. Frank also knows how to reproduce those incredible colours when the sun goes down. Or those flocks of sheep that you find yourself counting, for a child’s bedroom. Frank Follaco brings the poetry of clouds into homes.
