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In the news - English translation from the regional newspaper 'Le Resistant': SAINT-MICHEL-DE-RIVIÈRE / LA ROCHE-CHALAIS Adrian Eaves: The Cartographer of Emotion Do you know the name of the person who created the mural on the cemetery wall? Let’s meet him. In his fifties, Adrian Eaves has established himself as a unique voice in the British pictorial scene. Based in Hackney, at the heart of London’s vibrant energy, this artist nonetheless draws a vital part of his inspiration from far beyond borders, in the rugged horizons of Capileira, Spain, and through his regular artistic residencies in France and Belgium. His practice, resolutely abstract, is a delicate balance between methodical intention and raw energy. Eaves builds his compositions on the basis of rigorous structures—whether mathematical sequences like the Fibonacci spiral or precise geometric grids. But it is on the canvas itself that calculation gives way to instinct. Gesture, inherited from the tradition of abstract expressionism, takes over: drips, bursts of color, enigmatic signs, and fragments of collage populate the surface. These elements, which he considers a visual vocabulary, come together in vast constellations—sometimes forming knots of energy, sometimes silent clusters or fissures that absorb light. This duality between order and chaos isn’t the result of chance. It reflects an atypical path. A fine arts graduate from Loughborough College of Art & Design, Adrian Eaves also pursued academic studies in education and management, earning two MBAs. This dual training keeps his creative impulse constantly in dialogue with structured and reflective thinking. A Mural Tribute in Saint-Michel-de-Rivière In 2025, the artist created a deeply personal work: a monumental mural on the cemetery wall of Saint-Michel-de-Rivière. This artistic gesture carries a profoundly intimate dimension. Adrian Eaves had lost his mother just a few weeks earlier, and many members of his partner’s family are laid to rest in this place. The work, bathed in a field of vivid colors, is scattered with poppies and hyacinths—flowers that evoke both fragile memory and eternal love. With a studio located nearby, the artist regularly crosses the Channel to work in this region that is dear to him. His work, which embraces both landscape and pure abstraction, remains above all an exploration of the narrative potential of gesture. Adrian Eaves, a true architect of emotion, continues to build a unique visual syntax where each brushstroke is a syllable charged with meaning. — @Agnès Beccari