Christmas in April

MRACLAC

Wednesday 29. 04. 15 George and Laurene decided to give me an art day for my Christmas present so today we drove to Serignan to the MRAC where we saw an intriguing expo called Le musée des erreurs: Barnum. Afterwards we went on to a delicious lunch in Narbonne followed by a visit to another gallery, privately run, called LAC. We had been there before but this time it was a disappointment but the the space is stunning.

More views

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Monday 28. 04. 15 Busy day in the studio today. Finally finished all the Rooms with a View from my stay in Canada. Shown above are the view of the back garden at Carlton St, Martin and Beryl’s at Merrickville and Fran and Clives cottage at Wood Lake.

Daffoldils

Daffs

Sunday 26. 04. 15 It has been a damp grey weekend so far. Such a contrast to Friday when it was warm and sunny. These daffodils are on my kitchen table.

Snowy souvenir

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Tuesday 21. 04. 15 Did this small oil painting today. It is the view from Julia’s bedroom window in February – brrrr.

Spring flowers

ChalkFlowers

Saturday 18. 04. 15 Finally did a new drawing for my bedroom wall. Tulips that George and Laurene put on my kitchen table to welcome me home.

Spring encore

Broom

Sunday 12. 04. 15 After a good night’s sleep I reconnected the battery for the scooter and was amazed that it started first time after 4 months! It was warm and sunny so took a drive around the lake. The landscape was blooming, wild irises, gorse and broom, leaves on the trees, wonderful. The smell of the broom was intoxicating. it is good to be back.

Spring in the Hérault

SpringFlowers

Saturday 11. 04. 15 These are the flowers that greeted me when I came home this afternoon. Put there by Laurene and George. Had a good flight back home and was greeted with a warm, sunny Spring landscape with Broom blooming everywhere.

Stuck!

 

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Wednesday 08. 04. 15 Went to the airport yesterday to fly home and discovered that there was a flight controllers strike and that all flights to Montpellier were cancelled! Vive la France! Rebooked for friday in the hope that all will be back to normal by then. So today went to an interesting show of videos at the Power Plant. The videos on Stuart Hall and Patrice Lumumba were particularly good.

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Monday 06. 04. 15 I saw Geoff and Sandy last week and Geoff showed me this painting that he had done for his parents. It is in the style of Andrei Rublev a Russian iconographer. The main three figures are his grandfather, Geoff and his Dad with Geoff’s son in the top left hand corner playing soccer. It is hard to see from the photo but there are loads of icons buried within the painting and there are also pieces of text. It is brilliant!!