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Dans sa peinture, Jane Courquin invite a une balade champetre, fleurie et tout en douceur et lumiere. Sa carte de visite artistique est bardee de diplomes et de ctitiques elogieuses outre-manche et en France. Courquin et son conjoint Nichollas Hamper, tout deux peintres professionnels britanniques, se sont installes a Verteuil-sur-Charente en 2005. Ils ont achete trois granges en ruine, au Coeur du village. Ils les ont patiemment transformees en une tres belle maison mais aussi en ateliers spacieux, ou ils vivent et travaillent.

Thursday 30 January 2014

Cyclamen (croquis pour un tableau)

 
 
January can be a cruel and colourless month. The acquisition of a giant cyclamen was the perfect antidote. Here it is painted in acrylics on paper as a preparatory sketch for a later painting.

Tuesday 14 January 2014

Cornish Blue and Basil

>Cornish blue and basil< Oil, Acrylic and Gesso on canvas
I am inspired by everyday things I find haphazardly placed on my kitchen shelves. I pick up shells and pebbles on Cornish beaches and recall Walter Benjamin's famous text about personal narrative and oral history . The beauty and transcience of a butterfly in the garden here in France hovering above a cup of sunlight. And Basil , my Father's and Great Uncles name becomes at once a handy culinary herb as well as strands of  family history.
The chair at my table is the Loveday-Lewis one that belonged to my partner Nichollas Hamper's and Beau-Frere Billy Childish's Grandmother.
There is the ghost of a clock in the background. This is not real time. It is a poetic space that wavers between reality and imagination.