On 7 June 2015 we drove to a secret location on the Ile de Re for a weeks holiday by the seaside. After a stroll on the beach and a wade through the rock pools I spotted two mermaids sat on a rock and quickly decided the week for me was going to be a crash course in becoming a mermaid.
So I watched the tides and calculated when was best to swim and when was the best time to go rock pooling. I learnt about the splash zone and the rip and the wine coloured seas of the classical poets. And I finally braved a swim with > Les Meduses< .
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| >Swimming in the Sunlight Zone< janeCourquin copyright 2015 |
The painting is underway as I work from my sketchbooks, photos and memories.
I have added the > mermaid< stone I found on the beach in the painting above and some of the red seaweed left behind on the splash zone. A mermaids purse clinging to a sea tangle leads us into the painting. The whole space is sun drenched and full of light.
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| >Swimming in the Sunlight Zone< jane Courquin copyright 2015 |
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| detail L' Antiquites, La Flotte, Ile de Re |
On 7 June 2015 we drove to a secret location on the Ile de Re for a weeks holiday by the seaside. After a stroll on the beach and a wade through the rock pools I spotted two mermaids sat on a rock and quickly decided the week for me was going to be a crash course in becoming a mermaid.
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