The Traveller

oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand - huile sur toile
20cm x 20cm / 7,9" x 7,9"

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So, here's the beautiful young lady I was telling you about the other day. 
She commissioned me to paint her brother's and her portrait as a gift for her mother's 50th birthday.

A Mother with her Daughters

oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand - huile sur toile
36cm x 46cm / 14,7" x 18,11"

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Over the last few months I was working on this commissioned portrait and am very happy that the lady loved it when she picked it up!

The Friend

oil on hardboard panel - Öl auf Holz - huile sur bois
22,5 cm x 17 cm / 6,7" x 8.8"
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In Blue

oil on Daler Board - Öl auf Daler Karton - huile sur carton Daler
20 cm x 20 cm / 7,9" x 7,9"
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Whether or Not

After the exuberant and self confident woman from yesterday, here a pensive, doubting, and minimalist one.

oil on Daler Board - Öl auf Daler Karton - huile sur carton Daler
20 cm x 20 cm / 7,9" x 7,9"
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One and Only

I couldn't resist giving this beautiful face a try.

oil on hardboard panel - Öl auf Malpappe - huile sur carton dure
20 cm x 20 cm / 7,9" x 7,9"
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Karin

We were running around London so much and travelling back to France, that I couldn't keep up with my painting. I am pleased to be back at the easel and actually very pleased with this portrait of my friend Karin! It's been a long time since I did portraits - this makes me feel like doing more of them again.

oil on wood panel - Öl auf Holzplatte - huile sur plaque de bois
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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Paul and Antony

Our move is now in the end phase, only three more weeks in our old house and very much work to do. So I hardly get round to painting and thought I would show you where two of my paintings went to. This is a photo by the photographer Rip Hopkins, that he published in a book about the english people in this area, the Dordogne, titled "Another Country". I was very pleased to see that he decided to photograph these two gentlemen besides their portraits, painted by me.

The Orange Earring

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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Instead of going more abstract, as I had intended to, the painting turned out more realistic! Guess I will have to try again sometime. I have a completely different picture of it in my head but getting that out onto the canvas seems difficult.

Rip Hopkins

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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Not only does the cultural centre in our small town Ribérac organize a great music festival every summer (Le Grand Souk), but it also invites very good photographers as artists in residence for three months every two years. I have already portrayed two of them ( see Claudia Terstappen, "The Photographer" and Delphine Balley "Delphine") and follow that tradition now with a portrait of Rip Hopkins who is working on an exhibition and a book about the English people living in this area at the moment.

Vittoria, head study

pencil on paper, Bleistift auf Papier, crayon sur papier
21cm x 29,5cm
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Drawing class again today and thus another sketch of beautiful Vittoria. She's totally into the sixties, loves everything from that era and looks like she's just come from a visit to Andy Warhol's studio in New York. She's got big eyes which look even bigger with the thick, black eyeliner she wears. It's such fun drawing her!

The Little Smile

oil on canvas panel, Öl auf Malplatte, huile sur carton entoilé
18 cm x 24 cm, 7" x 9"
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This is another commission I recently finished, showing my Canadian friend Marion who is a fitness trainer. ( The real thing is not as red as it is in the photo!)
See the body shape? Wish I looked a bit more like that myself. There's one thing she and her boyfriend (who received this as a gift) asked me to alter - the smile - hence the title. Apparently she was trying out HIS new fabulous kite and was really thrilled about the things she could make it do, which made her smile in happy surprise, which made the photo HIS favourite photo. (They're madly in love....) Well, seems like I didn't capture that smile clearly enough - mind you, I didn't know the significance, the story behind it when I painted it. So, there will be a slight change, but on the whole this is it.

Little Mermaid

oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand - huile sur toile
20 cm x 20 cm / 8" x 8"
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Here's one of the commissions I have been working on.
This one was hard! I abandoned two first versions and only the third finally, the one you see here, was a success. At least, I think so and the man who received it as a gift thought so, too. That's the main thing - he's happy and I'm happy.

Sketch of Vittoria

pencil on paper, crayon sur papier, Bleistift auf Papier
21 cm x 30 cm

Instead of doing my usual painting class, we had this beautiful model sitting for us today and did drawings. I hadn't drawn people for years and thoroughly enjoyed the challenge in spite of the fact that I noticed how rusty my drawing skills are.

Portrait of a young woman

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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First of all I would like to send a BIG "thank you" to Myra who is a very creative (and fast working) artist and film maker! After having just discovered my work, she surprised me with a wonderful little film about Cezanne, full of humour, in which she also featured a few of my paintings!!!! Have a look on Myra's blog Last cup of coffee and enjoy!
I am very touched and feel honoured by so much attention! Thank you, very, very much, Myra, for this lovely gift! And please excuse me for not having mentioned this yesterday already, but we were invited for dinner and I simply didn't make it.

Another attempt at a portrait of Melodie, the young Dutch woman. I prefer the brushwork here, it seems more lively to me than the first one, but unfortunately I didn't manage to capture her likeness as well as before. I might work on it again...

Anneke, portrait of a woman in profile

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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This is the portrait of another Dutch woman, Anneke, whom my Dutch girl Melodie from a few days ago was looking at. I like this painting much better than that of Melodie, so I think I will try to paint it again. With my students today we decided to hire a model for our classes in the near future - we are getting more and more aware of the fact that portraiture painting can only be learnt properly from the living model!

The Dutch Girl

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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A few weeks ago, on one of these balmy summer evenings here in the Dordogne, I was invited for dinner on the terrace by some dear friends. Not only was the food delicious but I also had the pleasure to sit opposite this beautiful young lady from Holland, who bears the not less beautiful name "Melodie".

La Diva

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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The Visitors

oil on canvas - Öl auf Leinwand - huile sur toilé
35 cm x 19 cm / 13,77" x 7,48"
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Watching the Planes at Bergerac Airport

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
25 cm x 25 cm / 9,84" x 9,84"
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