I’m just back from two weeks painting in Provence – a mixture of good conversation, delicious food and HARD work! Every day we would be driven to a local site where we would spend the morning – over the two weeks we visited Murs, Joucas, Goult, Saturnin les Apt, Saignon, Viens and Simone la Rotunde, … Read more
Just back from a wonderful two weeks of painting in Provence … beautiful weather (apart from battling the Mistral while doing collage – that was a challenge!) Most mornings we did an exercise – the first week was collage and the second week was colour and in the afternoons we painted what we liked – … Read more
September – always a positive if somewhat melancholy month for me – new beginnings and in my case this year a new website. With the old one I felt that the paintings were just an add on – with the new one I feel that they are integral to the site. Indeed the home page … Read more
Get on a train just after 7 am at St Pancras and 5 ½ hours later I’m met at Avignon by David Atkinson. The beginning of a week’s painting in Provence at Les Bassacs. We are 12 students in total with Mark Cazalet, whom I’d known from England, as the teacher. Les Bassacs is a … Read more