The Hôtel de Ville is the traditional name given to the Town Hall or La Mairie much to the confusion of any tourists looking for a place to spend the night.

A view of Fayence from one of the approach roads. I love the added details of the two cats and the lady hanging her laundry out beside the road.

ayence – Robert Fabre Avenue looking from Rue Maurice Astier as best as I can work out from my recollection and looking at Google maps. It was a particularly hazardous intersection especially on…..

The working draft for La Cueillette des Figues / Picking Figs. My mother would often do a very quick sketch of a selected subject on location. Sometimes these draft pictures would be good enough…..

La Cueillette des Figues / Picking Figs was part of a series of watercolours my mother painted to sell in her little gallery. She decided that she…..

The working draft for Récolter des Figues / Fig Harvest. My mother would often do a very quick sketch of a selected subject. Sometimes these draft pictures would be simple line drawings with a brief notation on colors, other times…..

Récolter des Figues / Fig Harvest was part of a series of watercolours my mother painted to sell in her little gallery. She decided that she…..