Stefan Orins - Summer's Hopes (2020)

Summer’s Hopes is a painting from Patricia Jeanne Delmotte, that inspired me these 12 improvisations. Painted during summer 2018 in the heart of her garden, she was inspired by nature, with its colors, lights and the emotions it provides.

The point was not for this artist to reproduce a landscape or to represent flowers, plants and trees, but rather an attempt to translate, through abstraction, the impression left by nature. On March 2019, sound engineer Benoit Ganoote offered me to record piano solo improvisations. Looking at the painting on the wall in front of me, I improvised, trying to give an account through music of what the painting produced on me...

Patricia Jeanne Delmotte and Stefan Orins have formed an unusual artistic duo since 2008, while one is painting and the other plays the piano. Their complicity and their obstinacy to advance in their respective art and in their common project constantly push them to sharpen their listening and their vision. They cultivate a fertile ground for improvisation in their duo called «Bonheur Temporaire» (named after an album by Stefan Orins Trio). They do not hesitate to embark on various experiments such as residencies, show openings or visual concerts to establish a living contact with the audience.