SuMMeR iN tHe ChArEnTe 2014 Oil on Canvas 60x60cms SOLD

jane Loveday Courquin >L'EtE dAnS La ChArEnTe< 2014 Oil on Canvas 60x60cms

What more is there to say? Here comes the summer ! I'm off to have an apero by our newly installed hand built ceramic water feature flowing like a three tiered champagne fountain into the lily padded fish pond .

tHe PoT of GoLd 2014

jane Loveday Courquin >the PoT of GoLd< Oil on Board 2014

At the Art House my husband and fellow artist Nichollas Hamper and I  have facilities for ceramics as well as painting. There are always handfuls of handmade jugs and pots lying around the studios made mostly out of  ''la passion pour l'inutile'' as Jean Giono once wrote . The jug on the right is one of these. My belle Maman June Hamper is also a potter and today is her birthday so it is at once a celebration of her and also the afterglow of an amazingly warm and sun filled Summer Solstice .

bLaCkBiRd aNd dAffS 2014 Oil on Canvas 41x33cms



jane Loveday Courquin >bLaCkBiRd & dAffS< 2014 Oil on Canvas 41x33cms

A fabulously warm and sunny few weeks breathes warmth through my palette and colours are brighter and more thickly spread as the blackbird sings in the spring and then the sizzling start of a French summertime whilst fields and skies glow with a pink and amber haze.

Le JaRdIn dEs CuReS 2014 Oil on Canvas 90x30cms

jane Loveday Courquin >Le JaRdIn dEs CuReS< 2014 Oil an Canvas 90x30cms 

A healing medicinal garden is to be found at Tusson providing a restful pause for pilgrims on the Route de St Jaques de Compostelle that threads its way through France to Spain. I often draw there and enjoy studying the myriad of medieval botanical symbols for various herbs, plants and trees to be found in the guide to the garden. The painting > Le JaRdIn dEs CuRes< is inspired by these visits.


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Le JaRdIn dE TuSsOn ReViSiTeD 2014

>Le JaRdIn dEs CuReS~composition I<  COURQUIN 2014

 The beautiful medicinal garden at Tusson will soon be reopen after being put to sleep for the Winter.
It is only a short drive from my studio on the 'Route de St Jacques de Compostelle'. These are a few preliminary watercolour sketches for a larger ptg that will replace an earlier one on this subject that was sold.

>Le JaRdIn dEs CuReS ~ composition II<

Le PrEmIeR PrInTeMpS

>Le PrEmIeR PrInTeMpS<  jane Loveday COURQUIN 2014  acrylic on canvas 80x80cms

LeS TuLiPeS

>LeS TuLiPeS< COURQUIN 2014 Acrylic on canvas 80x80cms

 Spring burst forth in La Charente this year of the Horse at a strident gallop . Pearly snowdrops, crowns of indigo, white and gold crocuses, tulips of all colours of the rainbow popped their sleepy heads up, up and up . The garden has become a floral feast that I devour every morning with relish and painting utensils. And so a bouquet of tulips splashed onto the canvas in broad and lavishly coloured strokes.

>LeS TuLiPeS< COURQUIN 2014 



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