The Field of Winter Cabbages 2013 SOLD

jane Courquin > Field of Winter Cabbages< 2013

This is my winter landscape canvas completed late October , early November 2013. On late Friday afternoons I would make the short trip to the local Ferme Bio to buy my weekly organic vegetables. This field of winter cabbages is  seen through a space in the hedge row. 

jane Courquin watercolour sketch for the painting > Field of Winter Cabbages<

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jane Courquin >La Joie< plaster on wood 2013

Over the summer and intermittently throughout 2013 I have been experimenting with painting on plaster together with fellow Artist Nichollas Hamper . It affords luminosity and absorbs pigment readily. Most recently we ran an All Day Art Workshop to give our students the opportunity to experience the virtues of a plaster support for themselves. It was so successful we are repeating the event in late January to allow on going projects to evolve and new ones to emerge.

a BiRd iN tHe HaNd OcT2013

>Mauve Field with Blackbird<  80x80 cm

This canvas continues my exploration into painting the local landscape here in the Charente, France. Mauves seem to pervade everything I see at the moment . A signature blackbird stands atop a winter cabbage grown at the Ferme Bio where I go to buy my weekly veg.



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LeS dAhLiAs OcT2013

Summer's last blasts of colour come in the form of different shaped and coloured dahlias that spring up in the garden as Summer closes and Autumn settles in. I have attempted to capture the changing of seasons in this painting which also includes some of the everyday materials of the Artiste-peintre.

LeS ChAmPs de ToUrNeSoLs OcT2013 SOLD

 Summer does not leave quietly in the Charente, but rather ends in a final burst of colour with the last sunflowers . The harvested flowers then leave fields of repetitive short sticks which I have also attempted to capture in this fieldscape painting.

 

ArTiStS PoTs SOLD

Here is my > Pots des Artistes <  panoramic oil painting completed this summer . It began life a few years ago as a painting about being in India and  has since been continued as a painting about living in France and resolved itself as a still life of pots and cups. Some are from around my studio and others allude to Artists who have influenced my work. 1930s textile prints drift across the paint surface . I paint what I cherish.

>La Paix< SOLD Private Collection France

> La Paix < Oil on canvas has recently been acquired by a private collector in La Charente , France .