Madame Maury’s shop is at the bottom of this arcade on the right.

PS You may be interested to know that I have finally updated my web site at www.inoils.com

Nowadays I normally feel that my paintings are generally better hung unframed so as to avoid the light and atmosphere that is the main focus of most of my pictures being constrained by a physical border.
However, as part of my current joint exhibition, the Barnes Riverside Gallery has kindly put some of their fabulous frames on a couple of my paintings – and I have to say that I think that they really work!
The exhibition runs until 14th December.

Why is it that some of the greatest paintings were painted between 1910 and 1920 when surely most people’s thoughts would have been on horrors and sadness of the First World War?

Was it because of the advances in photography or development of better paints, most notably the cadmiums?

Edward Henry Potthast is an artist that I keep stumbling upon and keep meaning to look into more.

Potthast was born in Ohio, USA in 1857 and died in his New York studio in 1927.

He is renowned for his beach paintings which have a lot of similarities to those of Joaquin Sorolla who was living at a very similar time (1860-1923).

Potthast’s paintings can be seen here

And following the sketches this is the final painting – 92 by 65cm painted on a light mauve ground.

Following my recent trip to Valencia and the beaches around Javea where Sorolla painted, I have been doing some sketches for a new beach painting of my own.

Both of the above sketches have been done on poor quality board – the first is on a mauve ground (ultra plus cad red medium), the second on a yellow ochre/violet ground.

I am currently working the sketches up into a larger painting.

I am not particularly wild on bullfighting but I wanted to reflect the very real art of a Corrida de Rejon – bullfighting on horseback.

This painting will feature in Revel’s Fiesta d’Esapagne which is being held in mid July.