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Dans sa peinture, Jane Courquin invite a une balade champetre, fleurie et tout en douceur et lumiere. Sa carte de visite artistique est bardee de diplomes et de ctitiques elogieuses outre-manche et en France. Courquin et son conjoint Nichollas Hamper, tout deux peintres professionnels britanniques, se sont installes a Verteuil-sur-Charente en 2005. Ils ont achete trois granges en ruine, au Coeur du village. Ils les ont patiemment transformees en une tres belle maison mais aussi en ateliers spacieux, ou ils vivent et travaillent.

Monday 21 December 2015

EXPOS ! DeCeMbEr ExHiBiTiOns 2015, TuSSoN and VeTeuiL~sur~ChaRenTe


December has been a busy month with expos and sales and trying to post off paintings to London after a night bank robbery at the local post office. So once again all is well in the best of all possible worlds as 2015 draws to a timely close. There is already blossom on the pear tree and daisies are out on the lawn. The expos went swimmingly well and i am ready to plant the magic beans for 2016.






Monday 30 November 2015

Spring Daffs and the Verteuil-sur-Charente Fritillary Meadow 2015 ~ SOLD

>Spring Daffs and the Verteuil-sur-Charente Fritillary Meadow< Oil on Canvas 2015 Jane Courquin

The first of two sales from last week that i have been celebrating. Spring is in the wintry air !

Blackbird with Blackberries 2015 ~ SOLD

>Blackbird with Blackberries< Oil and mixed media on canvas Jane Loveday Courquin 2015

Blackbird with Blackberries was sold during a small exhibition of my work at La Prieurie of La Musee du Patrimoine in Tusson , La Charente on Sunday 29th November. It is now in the private Art collection of an editor of La Charente Libre newspaper.

Thursday 26 November 2015

Tuesday 7 July 2015

sWiMMiNg iN tHe sUnLiGhT zOnE, jUnE 2015.


 On 7 June 2015 we drove to a secret location on the Ile de Re for a weeks holiday by the seaside. After a stroll on the beach and a wade through the rock pools I spotted two mermaids sat on a rock and quickly decided the week for me was going to be a crash course in becoming a mermaid.
So I watched the tides and calculated when was best to swim and when was the best time to go rock pooling. I learnt about the splash zone and the rip and the wine coloured seas of the classical poets. And I finally braved a swim with > Les Meduses< .


>Swimming in the Sunlight Zone< janeCourquin copyright 2015
 The painting is underway as I work from my sketchbooks, photos and memories.
 I have added the > mermaid< stone I found on the beach in the painting above and some of the red seaweed left behind on the splash zone. A mermaids purse clinging to a sea tangle leads us into the painting. The whole space is sun drenched and full of light.
>Swimming in the Sunlight Zone< jane Courquin copyright 2015
detail L' Antiquites, La Flotte, Ile de Re



Le BaNc 2015

 
Its been a pleasure to participate in the Artistes et Compagnie project for 2015. I was first invited to the project by Dominique Retouret in 2014 to paint a homage to Monet's Waterlilies series alongside a small group of French and Belgian artists.
This year I was commissioned to work in full liberty from my own paintings. This is the resulting bench painted over a long weekend in full sunshine.
I was most thankful to the residents living opposite who kindly appeared with trays of fresh mint tea and Algerian patisseries and fresh dates whilst I was painting. My thanks also go to a local 10 year old girl who came to watch me work and to other friends who stopped by to show their interest and support.

Friday 5 June 2015

>LeS AbRiCoTs, LeS CeRiSeS et LeS PeRrOqUeTs<

>Les Abricots, Les Cerises et Les Perroquets< Jane Courquin 2015 Copyright, Oil on Canvas 80x80cms

Saturday 2 May 2015

Le JaRdIn sYmBoLiQuE A TuSsOn

Jane Courquin >Le Jardin Symbolique <  2015 Mixed Media 80x80cms
 Returning to painting the medieval gardens at Tusson on the Route de St Jacques de Compostelle is a way to experiment with a more chalky and paler palette after my recent trip to some inspiring London galleries. I'm enjoying playing with the circular symbol shapes within a rectilinear composition and combining interior still life objects with the outdoor gardens.


  Antique French lingerie has made an interesting paint support.
Jane Courquin 2015 Chemise du Jardin Symbolique ATusson

Tuesday 17 February 2015

LeS fRiTiLLaiReS



>Les Fritillaires< OIl on Canvas, 80x80cms, Copyright Jane Courquin 2015

La rEcOnNaIsSaNcE dEs fRiTiLLaiReS

>La Reconnaissance des Fritillaires< oil on canvas, 20x20cms, copyright JaneCourquin2015 

LeS TuLiPeS SaUvAgEs

 
 
>Les Tulipes Sauvages< Oil on canvas, 30x30cms, Copyright JaneCourquin2015
 
 
This small abstract in oils was completed after further foggy bicycle rides to the fritillary meadow fused with my memories of it in bloom over the past ten years.