Monday 24. 01. 22 In the fall of 1989 I sold Anderson and decided to go and live in France. I spent the first 2 months at a French school in Villefranche sur Mer, came home for Christmas, went back to France, stayed with Marie-Pierre and bought a 2CV. I named my 2CV Modestine after R. L. Stevenson’s donkey! Traveled around France, met the painter Peter Spens and started painting again. Met Jean Mangenot, Peter’s friend and neighbour who lent me his cabanon to live in. It was a bit primitive, one room on ground level and one above. No water and no toilet. In the summer I bathed in the Ouveze, in the winter I used Peter’s shower. Dug a new toilet every two weeks. Painted every day.
KEY: • Cabanon, • Peter Spens