Paint Provence and elsewhere with Tess
and other stories
Simply Watercolours. On line art course
Simply Watercolours is now live! We have an early bird 20% off until 14th February I am over the moon, we have finally finished my on line, one to one, personalized water colour course for beginners and for those of you who would like a refresher course. . ...
November ends in provence
End of November in the vineyards. Fabrice is already pruning the vines ready for the winter. Bare, twisted, dancing vines, stripped of all colour and left naked to brave the winter. From tiny buds, pink and green to spring green leaves, growing into long tendrils,...
November 1st Part one
I rarely have time to write my blog. Which is a shame. I always want to have time to research something interesting. Give you fascinating things to read and tell you lots of wonderfully enticing tales. But I don't really have much to tell you at all. I can't believe...
A little blossom for hope
I pad painting by Tess Water colour by Tess Watercolour by Tess Almond blossom cut out by Tess Almond Blossom Van Gogh Out of all Van Gogh's paintings his Almond Blossom paintings are my favourite. I think they are utterly beautiful and well simply splendid and...
Happy new year to you all
Hello everyone, just to wish you a very happy new year and lots of good things to come. I am looking forward to a year of painting, watercolour workshops, fun and laughter and I hope you are too. 2021 has been a year of up and downs. My trips started with a boom in...
Time Away in Bonnieux
Early morning sunrise over the hills It is my last day today, very sadly I will have to leave this niche in paradise. I arrived last Saturday. Books, files and work to do. I had planned a weeks work and a weeks rest. Work in the morning and fun in afternoon. As...
Inspired Matisse
I was in New York cooking in the Spring of 2007 for dear friends in their brown town house, a few minutes walk away from Central Park. Ten minutes from the Artist Student's League on 57th where I was a member every year for many years on the trot. Some of Americas...
Matisse Cut Outs
It's a funny thing the arrogance of youth, I think we need to have it as a survival mechanism in order to survive this difficult world. It makes things seem so much easier if you are full of confidence that you are sure you are right about everything. When I...
Wishing for the New Year and hoping for better days
I have been feeling very wistful about my painting trips. I have missed them so much this year and all the lovely people that come on them. I am hoping so much that I will be able to start them again next year. Here in Provence in April and Cinque Terre Italy in May....
Christmas.
I don’t think I have ever noticed people looking forward to Christmas so much. Young and old alike. I have mixed feelings about it, I always do, but I have enjoyed painting Christmas cards, and I am looking forward to a bit of jolly, lots of colour and twinkling...