Summertime

It has been a summer of fantastic exhibiting opportunities for me. I ended my last newsletter anticipating my solo exhibition at the Maison Bleue Gallery in the Fort di Bard. Well I am happy to tell you that it was a great success. The location is fantastic - here is a view from the battlements.

I sold four paintings to new clients - two large ones on the opening night.

A lovely family from Milan with one of the paintings they bought

At the opening

In June I was invited to join a prestigious international group of artists based in Piemonte - Arte Moleto.  My first exhibition with them “The Essence of Water” opened in a beautiful palazzo - Il Broletto in Novarra at the end of May, then in mid June it moved to the Castle at Casale where it will run until the end of August. I am so pleased to be part of this group of brilliant artists. It is wonderful to see how each artist has interpreted the theme.

Here is a collage of some of the works both in Novarra and Casale.

I am showing four large paintings and three works on paper - all from my mountain series focussing on the glaciers in the Alps that provide water to northern Italy but are melting an alarming rate due to global warming.

I am participating in a large mixed exhibition at the Castle of Costigliole in the province of Asti - the theme is red so I have entered this painting inspired by red heutchera

Red Heutchera and Daisies

As a member of the French Association of Arts, Science and Letters I am entitled to enter work for the summer salon in Paris. The exhibition was in June and I entered 4 floral works. The salon is heId in a gallery in the centre of Paris - just down the road from the Picasso Museum.  I travelled with my husband up to Paris by train for the opening. It was a wonderful experience and I was delighted that my paintings were displayed in a prime spot. We spent four days in Paris which is always fantastic. I hadn’t been the the Quai D’Orsay museum for years and was excited to visit the redeveloped museum but I have to say I much preferred the old one - it is housed in a 19th century grand railway station and in the past you could see much more of the railway architecture including a marvellous glass ceiling - which is now obscured. However the paintings were of course still fabulous - I especially like the post impressionists.

Me, being very happy with how my paintings were displayed at the opening

My latest opportunity has been to take part in an exhibition in Berlin with the Artaporter association (based in Turin). It was a salon type exhibition over a long weekend in a prestigious appartment in Berlin. I entered these three pieces which were inspired by a visit to Hamburg where I was fascinated by all the abandoned riverfront industrial architecture

Closer to home, our gallery Artemide in Cocconato has been doing well - all of us are

making sales. Recent sales of mine include these paintings

A real mix of subject matter and older and newer paintings

It has been an exciting year for me so far but the work involved in all these exhibitions has kept me out of the business end of my studio and I am itching to get back to work. I am hoping to expand my series of seascapes to exhibit in the gallery in Cocconato later in the summer and then I really must  start the work I have been promising myself for ages - developing landscapes of Sicily  and experimenting with the ochre based pigments I bought in Rousillon in Provence over a year ago!

My colour chart

So I hope by the time I write my next blog I will have some new work to show you.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and as always I welcome any feedback.