More Catalan artist

Lauren and I had the wonderful opportunity to spend quality  time with some extraordinary artist from the Catalan art dynasty! 

The first was Gail Duncan. Gail splits her time between England and Escarow France where she organizes artist retreats and teaches. Gail escorts groups of art enthusiast  to visit  artists studios, area museums and historical sites around the Catalan region of France. As she is an accomplished painter, we spent a delightful afternoon painting while she instructied us patiently, in the fine points of watercolor techniques. Lauren was a star student but I had more fun:)!!

John Goudie Lynch is a Scotsman that has now lived and painted  in the Catalan  region for some 20+ years. His work is delightful and humorous as well as artistically brilliant. John was unique in that he rounded the corners of all his canvases and had a reoccurring character in all his works that he claimed was not himself. 

Orus Frederique's studio is in Montalba Le Château France. She was absolutely one of mine and Lauren's favorites!!  Her work was large, abstract,nonobjective an absolutely beautiful!!  Orus told us she has worked on her  secret process for years and is one of three artist that has perfected the glorious sheen technique. My vocabulary is too limited and my pictures of her her extraordinary work do no justice to talent and genius!  Orus's work is just something that you have to see in person to really understand what I'm trying to say.

The last of the studio visits was to the Escaro artist Celine Pierre. She is an artist whose work very much resembles that of Picasso and other Cubist artist. Celine was a true joy to spend the afternoon with  even though there was limited communication... But as we know this was not a real problem because ..Art has it's own universal language!!