4 Works, Contemporary interpretations of Olympian Deities, Thomas Saliot's Naiads, with Footnotes #7

Thomas Saliot, France

Naiads

Giclee on Fine Art Paper

8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Private collection

In Greek mythology, the Naiads are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water.

They are distinct from river gods, who embodied rivers, and the very ancient spirits that inhabited the still waters of marshes, ponds and lagoon-lakes, such as pre-Mycenaean Lerna in the Argolis.

Naiads were associated with fresh water, as the Oceanids were with saltwater and the Nereids specifically with the Mediterranean, but because the ancient Greeks thought of the world's waters as all one system, which percolated in from the sea in deep cavernous spaces within the earth, there was some overlap. Arethusa, the nymph of a spring, could make her way through subterranean flows from the Peloponnesus, to surface on the island of Sicily. More on Naiads

Thomas Saliot, France

A bigger splash

Oil on Canvas

45.3 W x 55.1 H x 0.4 D in

Private collection

Thomas Saliot, France

Scuba buns

Giclee on Fine Art Paper

:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Private collection

Thomas Saliot, France

Summer sight Painting

Oil on Canvas

29.5 W x 35.4 H x 0.4 D in

Private collection

Thomas Saliot: "I live in Morocco, France and Spain where i paint simple iconic images from the net or my life, like big oil sketches. I have been painting professionally for over thirty years. Sort of a child of Hopper, figurative and Pop art, i love colors, provocation and big canvas.

Thomas Saliot was born in Paris, France, in 1968. He studied Graphic Design at the Met de Penninghen (Esag) for 3 years and opened his own gallery in le Marais in the historic district of Paris from 1990 to 2000. For the past 20 years he has been living the life, painting and travelling between Marrakech, Morocco and his home city of Paris, France. More on Thomas Saliot

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