Tag: Brush
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Diana/Diane
Read more: Diana/DianeDiana Raymakers was the daughter of Dr. G. Raymakers from Aarle-Rixtel in the Netherlands. They were vacationing in the area and saw my mother’s paintings in an exhibition in Seillans, a nearby village. Being fans of the Dutch painter Carel Willink they were taken with my mother’s use of symbolism in the background of her…
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Near the Basse Collette
Read more: Near the Basse ColletteHer diary has reference to a “oil sketch” near the Basse Collette as being one of three similar sized landscape panels that she was working on almost simultaneously.
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Old Age
Read more: Old AgeI think my mother painted Old Age because of the relative success of the Victoria painting. I am not sure who was the subject or what happened to the painting….
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La Chapelle de Notre Dame des Cyprès
Read more: La Chapelle de Notre Dame des CyprèsThis a more conventional view of the Notre Dame des Cyprès Chapel just outside of Fayence on the valley floor off the road to Seillans. This lovely chapel was the subject of many of my mother’s landscapes. Although there is no date on the painting…..
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La Chapelle de Notre Dame des Cyprès
Read more: La Chapelle de Notre Dame des CyprèsThis an unusual view of the Notre Dame des Cyprès Chapel just outside of Fayence on the valley floor off the road to Seillans. This lovely little chapel was the subject of several of my mother’s landscapes but mostly from a much closer viewpoint. Here we see the chapel as…..
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Kichicot
Read more: KichicotKichicot was my mother’s cat that she adopted from her good friend Yolande whom she stayed with when she didn’t have her own place to live just before she moved into the flat in Fayence. My mother always said that the cat or kitten at the time, adopted her. The rest of the family found…
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Bonnie Millhouse
Read more: Bonnie MillhouseA few months before painting this portrait of Bonnie Millhouse, my mother had painted a portrait of her own cat Kitchicot. I am sure seeing that painting was the inspiration for her friend Mary to commission this portrait of her sister’s dog. As fortune would have it, we can see….
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Martin Clayman
Read more: Martin ClaymanMr. Martin Clayman was an American business “tycoon” on holiday in the area and commissioned my mother to do this large painting. Her diary lists the price as $570 size with exclamation marks. At approximately….
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Victoria
Read more: VictoriaWe always referred to this painting as the “Old Lady” but from her portfolio I see that it was in fact called “Victoria”, I assume the name of the subject. This was a milestone painting…..