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Sunflowers

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Anemonies

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La Fenetre

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A quiet day at the beach ..

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Life is just a bowl of cherries

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Daniel Maffia and Painting Inspiration

Posted by admin on May 14, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

Last week  I was fortunate enough to meet the artist Daniel Maffia. I was tutoring on a painting holiday near the hilltop village of Joucas where he spends some of his time and was invited, along with my hosts to have ‘aperos’ at his beautiful home and to see some of his magnificent work. I have been having a love affair with water colour paints for number of years but for some time I have been nurturing the idea of returning to oil paints with a style that is more akin to realism than that which I work in now. When I saw some of his...