My Art Trip

03/10/2024

Come say hello and CELEBRATE the opening of the Monadnock Art Open Studio PREVIEW EXHIBIT!

I’d love to welcome you to this show at the Monadnock Center for Culture & History 19 Grove St Peterborough

The opening reception is
Saturday Oct 5th 4 pm - 7pm

It’s your perfect opportunity to peruse a sampling of the over 75 artists on the 0ct 12-14 tour, and decide which may have the art you’d love.

My “Deeper Than The Laughter” 36” x 36” oils with 23 k Gold Leaf is in the Preview Show. I’ll be there the first couple of hours to meet you.

07/07/2024

Come say hi at Peterborough Art Walk - today until 4:00
Sunday July 7
Just off Depot Square at the mouth of the footbridge!

18/11/2023

What an incredibly cool display!

25/09/2023

A favorite!!

Plongez dans l'univers des fruits de mer chez Gus ! 🦞

Rendez-vous chez Gus, situé au cœur de Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, nous vous accueillons du vendredi midi au mardi soir.

Sur place ou à emporter partagez un délicieux plateau de fruits de mer entre amis ! 🤗

📲 Réservation au 04 90 90 27 61

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24/03/2023

Holy water lilies!! It’s Legos. CLOSE-UPS in comments.

Nearly a century after Claude Monet painted them, the Nymphéas, or Water Lilies, still impress as a vision of a seemingly minor subject realized at a grand scale.

20/02/2023

A stunning acquisition!

If you need another reason to visit the Musée d'Orsay the museum has some exciting news! It just acquired Gustave Caillebotte's "Boating Party" piece with the help of LVMH for an astonishing $46.7m. Sold by the descendants of Caillebotte the artwork is now on display at the museum who's home to one of the largest Impressionism galleries 🖼 Even more excitedly the piece will go on tour in French museums in 2024 as part of the 150 years of Impressionism 🎉


🖼 Gustave Caillebotte, Boating Party, 1877-78, Musée d'Orsay

Photo credit 📷 ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT / AFP

14/11/2022

Happy birthday, Claude!
Thanks for the inspiration.
p.s. Nice gardens. I love what you've done with the water.

182 years ago today, a baby came into the world. Along the way he drew and painted and planted and changed the world.
Oscar Claude Monet 11.14.1840 - 12.05.1926
Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.

28/08/2022

What amazing news
The restoration will continue, but beloved Notre Dame may be open in 2024!

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220728-paris-s-notre-dame-cathedral-on-course-to-reopen-in-2024?fbclid=IwAR0tz2ymKy8IN8OTykTIKSy5RkmpOuaXFkEvUOfvXYkYZK7foXsRBqkco00

Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris is on track to reopen to worshippers and the public in 2024, Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak said on Thursday, more than three years after its roof was destroyed in a…

05/05/2022

It is staggeringly beautiful

17/04/2022

A memory from 2019. Easter in Aix

29/12/2021

I could not love this more. The view from my bedroom.
My alarm, in Auvers-sur-Oise, is the daily ringing of the bells, promptly at 8am. This is the back of the church Van Gogh painted.
The morning rain added to the moodiness of the break of day.
Seeing the staircase shown in the final 20 seconds always reminds me of the movie Lust for Life when Kirk Douglas portrayed Vincent, walked these steps - just as the master must have in his final days.

24/12/2021

Joyeux Noël!

Le Père Noël était perdu dans les ruelles d’Arles mais avec notre plan entre les mains, la distribution de cadeaux va bien se passer 😅🎁🎅🏼 HO HO OUF !

Joyeuses fêtes à tous !! 🎊🥳🎄

23/12/2021

Have you been on our Van Gogh Immersion trip?
Here’s our favorite southern village in the wintertime.
It was COLD a week ago, but temps are now in the mid-50s.
More photos coming in the next few days.

13/12/2021

29 Avenue Rapp in the 7th
A most elaborate Art Nouveau creation!

11/12/2021

Fromage

09/12/2021

Moulin Rouge!
Fabulous. Iconic. Such a fun night.
No pix of the show are allowed.

07/12/2021

Think they’d mind if I brought my sketch pad & started drawing people?
Place du Tertre in Montmartre. The Artists square has no tent in the winter but artists are busy as ever.

07/12/2021

Quick walk about in Montmartre & visit of Sacré Cœur.

06/12/2021

Do I know Croissants are made of butter? Oui.
Mais, je suis Américain! I must have butter on my butter.

04/12/2021

Mont Saint Michel!
It was top of Connie’s bucket list.
How about you?
Rick & I were here 5(?) years ago.
OMG the steep street and sooooo many stairs. Lucky for me, I only had to take them one at a time.
Hello 6th Century. What a dreamy visit.

01/12/2021

Paris 2021 day 2
Best sight- the joy of being back @ Rue Cler; Bus 69 route after dark (in comments); the nighttime searchlight view of the top of the Tour de Eiffel peeking over building tops on Rue Saint Dominique
Best eats/drinks- Chocolat Chaud @ Carrette and steak at Roussillon

01/12/2021

Paris
The art of chocolat chaud
It is divine

29/11/2021

Paris!
A long awaited return.
A long-anticipated check off of the bucket list….France for the holidays.
Oft Co-Host Connie Willis and I will be exploring all month!
To My Art Trip ALUMNI- best wishes of Joyeux Noël from our welcome dinner server Fredy- where we enjoyed lunch today!

23/11/2021

Ahhhhhhhhh oui!!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas when le sapin de Noël goes up in Galeries Lafayette 🎄

📷: Loïc. Lagarde

21/11/2021

Le Mont Saint-Michel
Have you been?