Nathalie: Nathalie Pelhate was the daughter of Christine’s local doctor. The painting was done as payment for medical visits and a series of cortisone injections that Christine needed to overcome a serious injury……

The Choice or Le Choix was a second painting of Sybille Bennet, a fellow artist, neighbour and good friend of Christine’s. She lived just opposite her in Fayence, on the other side of the Rue de Château. This was yet another painting created to….

Sybille: Sybille Bennet was a fellow artist, neighbour and good friend of Christine’s, who lived just opposite her place in Fayence, on the other side of the Rue de Château. This was another painting created to enter a specific exhibition, the 13th Grand Prix of the Côte d’Azure, in Cannes. In the diaries you can…

Un Souffle de Renaissance or Breath of the Renaissance is finally a painting I know something about as it’s me, Anthony, her younger son. This was a real struggle to complete during a brief vacation I took in France, the year after I graduated from Duke University in the USA. You can see from the…

Francesca Banteruck was another portrait commission done on short notice during the summer holiday time while relatives were visiting my mother’s very close friends, David and Francis Randall. It’s interesting to see,,,,,