Jacques Pépin is famous for his skills in the kitchen, but it turns out that he's just as comfortable in the artist's studio. A retrospective of his paintings and drawings--which he's been producing since the late 1960s--is opening tomorrow at the Art Essex Gallery in Essex, Connecticut.
Art Essex owner George Billis told the New Haven Register that Pépin's most recent works have been collages, and dropped this amazing anecdote:
We couldn't have said it better ourselves. Here's a small sample of Pépin's work in the show, which will stay up until November 18:
