Tag: Brush
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Children of Japan – girl
Read more: Children of Japan – girlChildren of Japan – girl, was painted around the same time as the Children of Thailand pair and it’s easy to see the similarities. When we lived in Japan my mother was fascinated with the elaborate traditional kimonos and ….
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Children of Thailand II – girl
Read more: Children of Thailand II – girlChildren of Thailand II – girl, was the second of a pair of paintings my mother did as a commercial venture. I think it was a more innocent time back in
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Children of Thailand I – boy
Read more: Children of Thailand I – boyChildren of Thailand I – boy, was one of a pair of paintings my mother did as a commercial venture to generate income while she was hoping for more commissioned work. I distinctly recall….
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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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Les Lavandières au Lavoir / The Washerwomen at the Wash-House
Read more: Les Lavandières au Lavoir / The Washerwomen at the Wash-HouseLes Lavandières au Lavoir / The Washerwomen at the Washhouse was a painting of Madame Golette who did the laundry for my mother while she lived in Bargemon when she first moved to the south of France. My mother was amazed….
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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…