I first met Brigitte Dykman many years ago at her studio. I had been told that she was ...

“High up above, the bird soars Sitting on a branch, it chirps Resting on my ...

One does not know what one paints, what one writes One does not know the secret in ...

This blog posts for the month of October and the following one in December will be ...

Meeting creative souls who live and work in the Drôme and talking about their art is ...

A few years ago I visited an exhibition with my wife Anke de Vries (see blog) of ...

SOUSPIERRE What characterizes the Drôme - besides the variety of beautiful landscapes ...

MIRMANDE In 1925 while he was staying at Livron, a little town in the Rhone Valley, ...

As you wind your way up by car to Truinas the countryside gradually turns into a painting ...

PONT-DE-BARRET The Rhône River is the natural dividing line between the Departments ...

LE POËT LAVAL IN THE 17th CENTURY The old village of Le Poët Laval that proudly ...

N.B. When I first decided to create this blog it was to be all about painting only, but I ...