Time flies by at such a rate these days, my last post was in April when we were still running the wood burner central heating and here we are in June, suffering “la Canicule”. I’ve been trying to keep up with the Monday morning drawing sessions, but I’ve missed a few recent ones as something…
Happy Poisson d’avril! After sketching this on the iPad ( with the inevitable inclusion of Gypsy, (and I don’t know why they’re dancing the syrtaki Greek dance, I should have portrayed them dancing the Ukrainian hopak…. that’s for next year’s! ) Anyway, I became curious as to whether other countries celebrate the 1st of April…
As regards my previous post in October my resolution is completely out the window! I have been busy on Instagram though, here are some snippets of what I’ve been up to the last couple of months. I’ve been taking loads of painting courses some offered by St Ives School of Painting http://www.schoolofpainting.co.uk with various artists,…
One of my first big projects after coming to live here in the early 90s was the interior of a restaurant, which was to be called Les Fresques. It was attached to a Château in the throes of being gutted and restored as a hotel complex. On a previous château commission I had divised a…
Another year, my goodness me, 2020 seems to be such a nice rounded figure, yet we had no idea what was coming! My latest painting is this one in varying stages. I don’t know where this style came from, it appeared to paint itself, I wish I had more works that did that for me,…
Well I’ve been away from my wordpress site for a while now, partly because of having a busy summer with holiday visitors, all of whom were French because of Macron asking the French people not to go abroad and to holiday in their own country. Thank goodness this was so because all bookings from would be UK…
During the confinement we, like many others took the opportunity to get on with some house repairs and decorating, getting ready for the season if it were ever to happen. Well I’m happy to say that after all our bookings being cancelled this year, once restrictions were eased people quickly started booking their holidays again.…
The month of June arrived as hot and sultry as can be, became cooler again, then torrential rain, it’s all very unsettled strange weather indeed. After a 4 year break from veggie gardening I decided to have one this year; being inspired by the no-dig method championed by Charles Dowding…. NO-DIG being the operative word…
….so I continue to draw our dog, she still inspires me, she’s so energetic and full of life I want to capture her energy and sense of fun. Gypsy is besotted by her red ball, whenever we walk her we have to take it with us, and we have to have ball sessions in the…
I wrote this during the exhibition in August and didn’t get round to posting it as I had to rummage about looking for images to illustrate it: Sitting here invigilating our 2 artist exhibition at St Avit Sénieur has prompted moments of reflection. The purpose for coming to live in France (for me) was to pursue…
Miscellaneous: when I find it hard to get to my studio because of juggling various jobs, (and when I do get there I struggle) I give myself a break and paint the house instead. After painting outside doors and shutters, I turned my attention on the entrance which was looking rather tired, not surprising considering I…
Sunny days amidst the grey drear: a couple of weeks ago we had friends staying so we took the opportunity of taking them on the local tourist trail. The weather was stunning the one day when visiting Domme, reminding us why we live here! Distant views showing the flooded valley, we’ve had loads of…
It’s been a busy summer for me with exhibitions, the B&B and the gite etc, things are calming down a bit now. I installed my last exhibition of the year, a 4 day group expo in Brantôme, a beautiful town about an hour north from us, often called the Venice of the Perigord, which is…
I had an interesting painting project to do recently, rather smaller than the vast wall or ceiling areas I’m often asked to do, but still a challenge all the same: I was asked to restore a large antique toleware tray, I said was happy to give it a go ( probably a phrase that would…
2 weeks ago Meggie dog went into veterinary hospital, she was immediately put on a drip, as she wouldn’t drink, after 5 days (and several hundred euros) she’s back with us again, and we continued nursing her for a further week and now nearly 3 weeks after the illness she’s back on form, if a…
Putting my thoughts about classical music into words.
Lily S. May--Life with Art
sharing the creative process of artist, illustrator, and book lover, Judy Watson
Sharing my work and thoughts....
painting...drawing...making small worlds
Essays on Mathematics and Culture
postcards from the hedge - a blog by Phil Cooper
views from the artist's studio.
ARTIST: oils, watercolours, trompe l'œil and design
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