The Chef's wine glass Le verre du Chef 12"x10" 30cmx25cm Oil on canvas

The Chef's wine glass

This preparatin for a meal became a painting
Cheers !




La preparation d'un repas devient une peinture
A la votre !

4 Oil paintings on gessoed board

Maise field 45cmx33cm  18"x13"

Starting Planting 40cmx30cm    16x12"

This year blossom of my palmtree

A corner of my garden 42cmx33cm 17"x13"

THE BUNS AT TEA TIME (brioches in French) 13"x18" 33cmx46cm

Tea Time

A setting at my painting class, then the buns were eaten! a delight...
Now I am pleased with this reult as this is the direction I want to take with my futur paintings :brighter,purer colors and a stronger drawing.


Des brioches a la classe d'art de Tilly (Valognes) ,un regal pour notre the! Je suis contente du resultat car le dessin est present,les couleurs plus pures et plud fortes.

The damaged brass jug and oranges 15"x18" 38cmx46cm

This is a classic setting -which I have tried to avoid recently - but this damaged brass jug must have touched me... and of course the light on it and the reflexion of the fruits was an interesting challenge. This painting was done in 2 sessions of 3hours.

Un challenge interessant que donne  cette nature morte  , lumiere et reflexion des fruits  sur le cuivre .

Ce travail a ete fait en 2 seances de 3 heures.

The brass jug with oranges  (sold)

This summer 2015 Few paintings and the artist in action!

Le chemin de Port Levy 60cmx34cm

La Pointe de Jonville 40cmx50cm

Cosqueville village et la plage 40cmx20cm

Jonville plage 65cmx50cm

L'artiste 2015

Corn field summer 2015 14"x18" 35cmx46cm

Corn field

 I found difficult to decide when this painting should be finished (one of my recurrent problem!)  I liked what was at the top and bottom but never satisfied with the center which was after all the subject of this painting.After reworking it I felt good so this definitely told me this was the end.
 Underneath is one of the version  I rejected.

Version rejetee

Il m'est difficile de savoir quand une peinture est finie, je n'etais pas satisfaite avec le champ de mais, sujet de ce tableau. J'ai retouche plusieurs fois celui-ci  pour enfin arriver a la version du haut qui me plait!

A winner ! Le Vast 16"x20" 40x50cm

Le Vast is a small village in Normandy, close to Cherbourg where once a year  beginners and professionals painters meet to paint a spot of their choice. - they are many! This year I joined the group and was happy to be rewarded with the second price as professional. Here is my painting


The path towards le Vast - A la prima

Reville the beach 20"x 65" 50cmx65cm

Reville en Juillet 2015

                                                        
July  2015
A hot day, the scenery is constantly changing, I have to be very fast!   I painted this on a black heavy paper( and gesso )which seems to have darken all hues creating a "stormy" effect. I quite like it.

Juillet

Il fait tres beau, la scene change constamment , il fait faire vite! J'ai travaille sur un paper epais ,traite avec du gesso et une couche d'acrylique noir ce qui a assombri toutes les couleurs , cela donne  un effete d'orage qui me plait...

2 variations of a painting

The blue horse 60cmx50cm

 

I entered this painting late month for an exhibition ,the subject being The horse. I have no horse, did just a bit of riding when I was younger therefore I had no idea what to do till I realised that I had a horse at home ! a sculpture of one of the four famous Marly horses ( their replicas can be seen on the Concorde Place in Paris.)

Cette peinture a ete presentee - le sujet Le cheval- au salon des Cascades a St Pierre L'Eglise le mois denier. Je n'ai pas de cheval et ai tres peu monte , aussi je me suits decidee pour une sculpture d'un cheval de Marly que j'avais a la maison (la replique de ces chevaux peut etre vue sur la Place de la Concorde, Paris

The horse with silver 60cm x 80 cm   24"x32"

La pointe de Jonville et un jardin au Vast

La Pointe de Montville 40cmx50cm. 16"x19"



J'ai repris les pinceaux et come c'est l'ete j'ai abandonne l' objet pour le payage,  et de tenter de connaitre mieux la complexite des couleurs de la nature, specialement les verts.

 

I am back painting and being Summer I have started painting landscape instead of Still life. I have very little experience but it is a fantastic feeling to be in nature trying hard to reproduce - more to interpret it. The greens are really a challenge!

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  Le jardin au Vast 47cmx38cm    18"x15"      

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An unfinished painting.18"x14". 47cmx36cm

This is an old painting which was never finished. I have readjusted some values - mostly the light which reminds me of the importance of creating good values right from the start : dark, light and middle tone , simple is it not !

J'ai  travaille sur les rehauts pour enfin finir cette peinture. Ceci me rappelle qu'il faut bien travailler les valeurs des le depart, les sombres, les lumières, les demi tons , les classiques commencaient en faisant le tableau monochrome avec toutes les valeurs.

Autumn  2013

Roquebrune mountain 20"x16" 50x40cm

Roquebrune (Huile)

From our house similar to the one in this picture (but with a swimming poole) we could see this fantastic rock formation changing colour under different light.
The challenge was to give the three level of depth in this landscape.

La montagne Roquebrune vue sous la lumiere du matin (elle change de couleur avec l'heure) .Une legere brume bleue enveloppe cette montage attenuant sa couleur et aidant a figurer la distance.

2 Nude studies on paper

Long time since I was able to write, but the death of my husband 7 months ago explains my silence. He always knew that my passion for painting will help me. These 2 twenty minutes studies were done at the school of Fine Arts in Cherbourg.

Enfin voici un nouveau poste apres 7 mois de silence que je me decide a briser enfin.Ce sont 2 etudes de 20 minutes au crayon sanguine.

Back to Toleware

I was contacted in April for some Toleware work for a client and here is a gathering of the work. I used to have a small business of metal trays , jardinieres and wastebins that I decorated and sold to shop or designer (see my Profile)

En Avril un client m'a commande une serie de corbeilles en metal decorees a la main avec de la feuille de cuivre. De retour donc au travail que je faisais a Londres, decoration d'objets en metal pour magasins d'interieur ,art de la table et pour des designers.(voir mon Profile)

Oranges and wrapping 16"x13" 41x33cm

I am trying to avoid to be too descriptif and realist with my work. To give too many details might not be a quality after all. I have to remember that "less is more" and  that is what I have been trying to do with this painting.
I am please with the result and this treatment has taken this picture to an abstract level.

Je me suis imposee d'etre moins descriptive realisant que de donner trop de details n'est peut-etre pas une qualite.Se rappeler que "moins est plus"et c'est ce que j'ai essaye de faire avec cette peinture. J'aime sa qualite abstraite.

Spring onions 2013

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I have decided to do some fruits and vegetables paintings all of the same format 8"x10"  for my exhibition in Carteret as mentioned in my previous post.

J'ai choisi de presenter mes peintures de legumes et fruits sur un format unique de 20x25cm pour l'exposition a Carteret. Voir mon poste du 11 Mai.

High tide 7"x10" 18x26cm

At last few hours of sun and light to escape to the coast - five minutes from where I live, I am so lucky!

Enfin un peu de soleil et lumiere ce qui m'a permis de m'echapper pour faire cette pochade, un lieu tout pret de chez moi, quelle joie d'habiter ci pres de la mer!

Pears and Grapes in a chinese bowl 9"x13" 24x35 cm

I have been asked to exibit few paintings of fruits and vegetables for a conference on diet taking place in Carteret in October and focusing on the value of eating fruits and vegetables.So be prepared to see some of these in the future! this is my first one.

Il m'a ete demande de presenter a Carteret en Octobre des peintures de fruits et legumes pour une conference sur la nutrition  et les benefices de manger des fruits et legumes. Donc me voici avec un theme tout choisi!
Ceci est ma premiere peinture

The forgotten armchair 20"x23" 50x60cm

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This painting will be shown at an exibition in St Pierre Eglise (Normandie,France) in May this year . The theme is " The time".



J'ai préféré pour ce projet du temps travailler avec des lavis ,des frottis et grattages . L’objet s’estompe, comme faisant partie d’une mémoire et le tableau lui-même devient le sujet du temps inévitablement destructeur »