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Dans sa peinture, Jane Courquin invite a une balade champetre, fleurie et tout en douceur et lumiere. Sa carte de visite artistique est bardee de diplomes et de ctitiques elogieuses outre-manche et en France. Courquin et son conjoint Nichollas Hamper, tout deux peintres professionnels britanniques, se sont installes a Verteuil-sur-Charente en 2005. Ils ont achete trois granges en ruine, au Coeur du village. Ils les ont patiemment transformees en une tres belle maison mais aussi en ateliers spacieux, ou ils vivent et travaillent.

Friday, 15 January 2016

Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Spring Studio 2016

A Selection of Available Work

Series One: Paysage 
The  Fritillary Water Meadow, Verteuil~sur Charente

Le Papillon Fritillaire 80x80cms


Les Fritillaires 80x80cms
detail



Fritillaires Abstrait 20x20cms
Fritillaires et Arbres Abstrait 30x30cms


The Charente Sunflowers
Les Tournesols 80x80cms



The Village Farm
Le Ferme Bio, Verteuil~sur~Charente 40x80cms










Series Two: Still Life
Table Tops

Sylvie's Bitter Orange Marmalade 40x80 cms


Cornish Table 50x70cms



La Table Des Cerises 80x80cms


detail



La Table Des Tournesols 80x80cms



La Table Des Anenomes 80x80cms

La Table Simulatane 80x80cms

Le Repassage 40x90cms

La Nappe Rose 80x90cms

Series Three: The High Street
La Fleuriste

La Fleuriste Des Artistes 80x80cms
La Fleuriste Du Village 80x80cms

Miscellaneous Smaller works


The Deckchair 20x20cms

Chairs and screen 20x20cms
La Coupe Des Cerises 20x20cms
The Red Armchair 20x20cms




Selection of paintings on wooden box supports ~various sizes




I am officially registered with La Maison Des Artistes, Paris, as a professional Fine Artist.

Monday, 21 December 2015

EXPOS ! DeCeMbEr ExHiBiTiOns 2015, TuSSoN and VeTeuiL~sur~ChaRenTe


December has been a busy month with expos and sales and trying to post off paintings to London after a night bank robbery at the local post office. So once again all is well in the best of all possible worlds as 2015 draws to a timely close. There is already blossom on the pear tree and daisies are out on the lawn. The expos went swimmingly well and i am ready to plant the magic beans for 2016.






Monday, 30 November 2015

Spring Daffs and the Verteuil-sur-Charente Fritillary Meadow 2015 ~ SOLD

>Spring Daffs and the Verteuil-sur-Charente Fritillary Meadow< Oil on Canvas 2015 Jane Courquin

The first of two sales from last week that i have been celebrating. Spring is in the wintry air !

Blackbird with Blackberries 2015 ~ SOLD

>Blackbird with Blackberries< Oil and mixed media on canvas Jane Loveday Courquin 2015

Blackbird with Blackberries was sold during a small exhibition of my work at La Prieurie of La Musee du Patrimoine in Tusson , La Charente on Sunday 29th November. It is now in the private Art collection of an editor of La Charente Libre newspaper.

Thursday, 26 November 2015

Tuesday, 7 July 2015

sWiMMiNg iN tHe sUnLiGhT zOnE, jUnE 2015.


 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< .


>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.
>Swimming in the Sunlight Zone< jane Courquin copyright 2015
detail L' Antiquites, La Flotte, Ile de Re