So, as we sit and wait to see what happened to the art we sent to the U.S. for sale…

I’m working on a series of watercolours, pastels and oils of  The Garde Républicaine for an exhibition in Paris at Easter. We’re going to see the Colonel of the Regiment in Avignon on Friday with some works in progress, which I hate doing, I don’t like anyone but Sally seeing things half done, but he’s the boss.

I hope to have about eighteen ready in the end. The series is teaching me a lot but it’s boring to go from painting of Gendarme to yet another painting of yet another bloody gendarme. I do hope you understand that the life of a painter is not all drink and wild bohemian parties, it’s HARD work.