Summer 2012 was a fabulous year for our small >Abricot< tree . Its delicious fruit were the inspiration for the start of a new painting. After a slow process evolving over the next year the finished painting came to fruition in the summer of 2013.
It contains a much treasured petite antique black cafetiere given to me by friend and local Artist Florence Sohm that often makes a familiar appearance in my work. We are surrounded by the Cognac vineyards and there is an abundance of >les raisins< for wine , pineau , cognac and feasting. The Compotier is always brimming over with grapes during the season.
The print on the table is taken from my collection of vintage sheets sourced at the local Depo Vente.
The table swims in an ambiance of >Tiffany< blue as a nod to one of my favourite books and films > Breakfast at Tiffanys<.
The tiny wild daffodil and even smaller wild bluebells carpet the woods that belong to the Chateau de Verteuil where we go to cut wood for our sustainable winter fuel at the beginning of the New Year until early Spring.
