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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.

Friday 5 December 2014

La bOiTe dE pOmMeS et La BoUiLLOiRe AnCiEnNe aVeC SeS fLeUrS eT PaPiLLoNs, 2014 Oil on Canvas 1x0.5M

>La Boite de Pommes et La Bouilloire Ancienne< 2014, OIl on Canvas 1x0.5m, Jane Courquin Copyright 2015

This weeks painting began with my beautiful old 1930s cream and green enamel kettle that I picked up early one morning at an antiques market in Abingdon Oxfordshire. I was on my way to a course and couldn't resist. My subsequent late arrival was announced by a carrier bag of clattering pots and pans.
My love affair with enamelware is as strong now as it was back then. This particular pot has appeared in at least two large still life oil  paintings made when we moved to France in 2003. I sold the first ptg to the Immobilier/Estates Agent we bought our barns from and the second to a London Collector who already had quite a few of my paintings she had bought in Oxford.
I have been admiring the still life paintings of the 17th Century Dutch Masters and reinterpreting this classic theme . There are nods to De Heem, Van Ast and others with the subject matter and aspects of the composition. I am tempted to put in a blue ribbon to hold the grapes as was often seen.
 
 

Monday 1 December 2014

Three Paintings SOLD 'Le ChAmP dEs ChOuX', 'dAhLiA rOuGe' & 'LeS fLeUrS bLaNcS'


 I have been celebrating another brilliant November sale of three paintings to a private collector in France. The Brinjal/Aubergine and Tanners Brown walls are at the darkest end of the rainbow making my paintings glow brightly like gems in the dark.