by Tessas Painting Trips in Provence | Nov 28, 2022 | Art Classes, Art Exhibitions, Bonnieux, Painting workshops
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,... by Tessas Painting Trips in Provence | Feb 24, 2022 | Painting workshops
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... by Tessas Painting Trips in Provence | Jan 2, 2022 | My Watercolours, Painting workshops, Rouissillon, watercolour courses
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... 
by Tessas Painting Trips in Provence | Sep 18, 2021 | Bonnieux, My Watercolours, Painting workshops, Rouissillon, watercolour courses
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... by Tessas Painting Trips in Provence | Apr 17, 2021 | Bonnieux, Matisse, Painting workshops
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... by Tessas Painting Trips in Provence | Apr 6, 2021 | Lorgues-Provence, My Watercolours, Painting workshops, watercolour courses
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....