Just a detail picture on the studio… I love plants and flowers and also when Spring is here, showing his nature colours once more!! When the Mimosa trees start to flourish, I know that the Spring is arriving, and its scent fills the house…and the studio!!
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Happy Easter!!
On these dates, we always celebrate the Orthodox Easter at home and paint colored eggs all together, around the table, with the materials on hand. Since we are under a quarantine in Spain these days and most of the shops are closed, we have had to improvise. We did not find white eggs or special […]
Continue readingRed Tulips for the Studio.
I love flowers… So I have decided to buy a beautiful Tulip bouquet for the Studio.
Continue readingA still life Pastel painting, enjoying the colors.
It was long ago when I did my last still life Pastel painting. Normally I do Pastel portraits that capture all my attention but I had this particular desire and joy to paint a simple still life set up for the first time in years… I almost forgot how liberating and relaxing the still life […]
Continue readingIn the “Ochre heart” of Provence, Roussillon, part 2
After visiting the mines, we took the car and not far away, only two kilometers, we found the old Mathieu factory. An old ocher factory, which produced about 1,000 tons of material a year, until 1963. It was then abandoned for many years until Barbara and Mathieu Barrois discovered the place, felt in love and decide […]
Continue readingIn the “Ochre heart” of Provence, Roussillon, part 1
In the Ochre heart of Provence, Roussillon. Following the colors, I arrived in Roussillon. The land of Ochres. A trip has many meanings. In the Cambridge dictionary, we read; “a journey in which you go somewhere, usually for a short time, and come back again”. But a trip is also a search, a change in itself. The trip is movement, discovery and […]
Continue readingFollowing the steps of Van Gogh in La Provence
I have always dreamed of visiting La Provence and take a tour following the steps of Vincent Van Gogh. One of my favorite painters. One painter that had a big impact on me in my youth. I admired his sincere art and his dramatic and tragic life, struggling through adversity. A life devoted to his […]
Continue readingThe Spring is on its way…
I can´t wait the Spring arrives! I love Spring and I love flowers… And one of the signs that the Spring is on its way is when the Mimosa flowers start blooming. This is the moment when I know that the Winter is at its end! So I take my bike and go out to […]
Continue readingA day full of colours…
This was one of those days when everything shines and all has more color. With my family, we were lucky to be able to enjoy this day and spend it all along on the south coast of France, near the Parc Naturel Régional de la Narbonnaise en Méditerranée. No hurries. Without anything important to do… The […]
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