Loving Vincent

Dena Peterson, photo courtesy of Hugh Welchman

DENVER STORE EVENT

Loving Vincent Film at the Chez Artiste
extended through Thursday, October 26

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LOVING VINCENT is the world’s first fully oil painted feature film. Written & directed by Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman, produced by Poland’s BreakThru Films & UK’s Trademark Films.

The film brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painters who travelled from all across the world to the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production. As remarkable as Vincent’s brilliant paintings, is his passionate and ill-fated life, and mysterious death.

No other artist has attracted more legends than Vincent van Gogh. Variously labelled a martyr, a lustful satyr, a madman, a genius and a layabout, the real Vincent is at once revealed in his letters, and obscured by myth and time. Vincent himself said in his last letter: ‘We cannot speak other than by our paintings’. We take him at his word and let the paintings tell the real story of Vincent van Gogh.

Dena Peterson, who was in our Denver store to paint a mural in the style of Van Gogh and to talk about the process behind making Loving Vincent, is one of the 125 professional artists who were part of this remarkable film.

About the artist: Dena Peterson's small town roots prompted one of her art professors to comment that her work expresses a love of intimate, quiet, and peaceful spaces. She enjoys the richness and texture of painting with oils, both en plein air, and in her Colorado Springs studio.

“For me, painting is not about duplicating reality. I paint to evoke emotion.”. Her work can be seen at denapaints.com