Winter Paintings

WINTER IN VALROMEY

With yet more snow falling, it seems the right moment
to post these paintings of winter scenes of

Valromey and Le Grand Colombier

Winter light, St Martin de Bavel - 50 x 100 cm

Winter light, towards Les Bergonnes - 40 x 40 cm

Le Grand Colombier from the south - 30 x 80 cm

Winter fields towards le Grand Colombier- 40 x 120 cm

Winter fields I - 40 x 40 cm

Winter fields II - 40 x 40 cm

Les Chansons du Coeur

Les Chansons du Coeur
Saturday 24th January 2009

Here are some pictures of Sarah, singing with Ellie and the Group Gospel de Belley, at Le Chevalet Bleu, the gallery of Sylvie Messonier at Marignieu.

Many thanks to Petra Bertram-Farille for her photos.

Sussex Light Cock

Sussex Light Cockerel
(Or the French equivalent!)
40 x 30 cm

I am getting broody. No, not more children, just chickens!

Lately, everytime we go anywhere, I find myself peering over walls and through wire mesh fencing at the the varied flocks in the villages that surround us. Until such time as the back garden is secured and the old chicken house repaired, I must content myself with painting other people's poultry.

Next week I will take this fine chap and two fat hens up to my exhibition at the Auberge at Oncieu, a tiny village of old stone farm houses that huddles in a defensive circle around a field on a hill top. It overlooks the valley of the Albarine as it cuts north through the Jura massif towards Amberieu, and in its turn the village is overlooked by craggy limestone cliffs. I once started to clamber up to the cross perched on the summit of the ridge, but got wobbly, and decided that discretion was the better part of valour. However, even fom this particular chicken's point of view, the panorama was pretty amazing!

Blue Dove - 30 x 30 cm

Green Dove - 30 x 30 cm

Violet Dove - 30 x 30 cm