Maurice Denis (1870-1943), a famous French painter, one of the leaders of the Nabis movement painted ‘Procession under the trees in St Germain en Laye’ in 1892. From February 22 to May 20, 2007, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts…
These 3 views are a follow-up on previous sketches done and published on this website. I translated the sketches to watercolours in a triptych.
A new sketch of Saint Germain en Laye, the regal town in an affluent suburb 20km west of Paris. I gave the watercolour a cartoon look by adding india ink on the drawing.
Here’s a new version of the Port Royal Cloister to complement our earlier sketch. This time it’s a watercolour and not a drawing.
Here is a view of Auvers sur Oise, the small town north west of Paris where Van Gogh ended up his life. He shot himself a few hundred yards from this church in a field which can still be seen…
At Number 38 rue Boulard in Paris (14th arrondissement), there is a huge arch leading to a group of buildings named Villa Louvat. At the end of the archway, two converted workshops can be found on either side of a…
Here is a view taken from our house in the Pyrenees. This is an old weaver’s workshop converted into a house. This is a traditional house from the Ariege, in the Pyrenees mountains. In the distance one can see the…
Le Havre is a town in France, the name of which means ‘haven’, almost oppositive newhaven on the other side of the Channel, in Normandy. This watercolour depicts the house of our friends in Sanvic, in the outskirts of that…
I have just applied to the Emerging Artists Art Contest organised by Slowart Productions. Here are the four pictures that I have sent to slowart for the contest: “les écorchés”, Pollarded trees in Villennes sur Seine, West of Paris •…
Back to Paris. Very close to the Port Royal (RER) underground station you may find the eponymous abbey. A famous religious place which used to be the centre of jansenism. Famous writers and philosphers like Pascal and Racine for instance…
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