Looking at doing

I am starting an interesting process to structure my online presence in a different manner.   It will include art posts but also a more holistic approach and collaborators.  Watch this space!! Transformation in progress.

 

Spring feeling

Spring has sprung, the studio is warmer.
Here is one of the latest spoon portrait and a goodbye book cover I made for a leaving teacher book  (!+1=3)

Caramel shells, old fashion sweets made with pouring caramel in a sea shell. 

Church floor in Normandy

What's stopping you?

Papillons

Pour ma fille, une collection imaginaire.
For my daughter, an imaginary collection.

Christmas Fair

A selection of the artwork for sale at the Christmas fair.  

We manned the art stand and the the hot waffle stand for the kids!  

The best combination of jobs in the world!

Customized Family spoon portraits!

Pain Quotidien Spelt Quinoa Scones

There is a Pain Quotidien near the kids' school. I got their Spelt Quinoa scone this week and it is amazing. Crunchy with quinoa and almond flakes, just sweet enough with the currants. 

I googled the recipe from http://www.eatcookexplore.com/spelt-quinoa-scones-recipe/ and this is what I am making for Sunday brunch!

Used a great round cutter for many round watercolors to come! Just did a fab herbal wild medicine course and it was pointed out that square shapes are static and do not exist in nature therefore stress the brain. Round shapes (think Mongolian round houses) represent mocement, celestial objects and are not seen by our brain as something odd to work on!

Bordeaux Sun

Finally, a large dose of sun overexposure in the beautiful region of "Entre-Deux Mers".  Meaning "in between 2 seas", t is a region featuring 2 major rivers.  La Dordogne river in particular is a delight to swim in, all light and clear and very slow in some places.
Fresh herbs for foraging are plentiful as this is a wetter climate than the riviera, all the better for landscape diversity.
The Bay leaves are from the herbalist medieval garden at La Sauve-Majeure and will do extremely well in the next ratatouille.