Inspiring me this week

This interesting article on refining your creative process from Rena Tom here challenged me to think about my own process and how I can make it more efficient … not so easy for a 6 months pregnant with toddler in tow creative lady but perhaps now more than ever I need to identify and put [...]

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Looking back on Christmas in the Luberon…

Zinc ornaments and handmade felt decorations displayed within weathered glass-houses, a trip to Edith Mezard in Lumieres always is a feast for the creative senses and this year was no exception with an outdoor artisan market in their grounds Handmade silk angels nestle in the manger Leaving the luxury of EM, we swung by the [...]

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Inside Cardins castle

Normally speaking, the nearest one gets to the inside of the Marquis de Sades castle is staring down the wrong side of the stone ravine moat, however this summer, Pierre Cardin opened the doors of both the castle and its grounds to the public for a fee of 5 euro….how could I resist sharing some [...]

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Vernissage

I was really excited about the Vernissage for the summer term of SCAD Lacoste, the village has been buzzing with creativity since the students and Profs arrived in early June and glimpses into their studios over the last few months gave me a taste for the talent and work to follow…my appetite was also fuelled [...]

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So hello…..

…It has been TOO long, I can’t believe the last time I properly wrote here was at the end of June. Where did July go? In truth, this blog has been completly neglected as I’ve been holed up in my atelier experimenting with all sorts of exotic mediums including resin and acrylic. Patience is not [...]

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Maison Dora Maar

Rogi Andre 1940   Located in the village of  Ménerbes, this 18th-century town house was purchased in 1944 by Pablo Picasso for Dora Maar (1907–1997), the artist and Surrealist photographer who was  Picasso’s companion and muse in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Maar owned the house until her death, after which a resident of [...]

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Chateau de Sade

The fractured castle walls rise up above the village of Lacoste, not entirely welcoming, reminding us all of its infamous owners, past and present.  Normally the castle is very much closed up but as luck would have it, Monsieur Cardin has opened the grounds of the castle to host a sculpture exhibition (including the work [...]

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wonderful books

I delved into The Selbys archives and only came up for air an hour later – he has some really gorgeous photographs there but amongst them are these wonderful books with colourful covers – they reminded me of the great penguin classics with covers by designer Coralie Bickford Smith that I got from Raphael for [...]

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Dream bed

I have posted about an Enchanted Forest bedroom before here, and just today, whilst browsing the latest issue of superb online design magazine, Lonny, I saw this wonderful handmade wrought-iron bed created by artist David Rockhold for the New Orleans home of Caroline Roberts, you can read more here

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Circus prints

I love the many beautiful circus themed bedroom ideas for children out there, I posted about one such bedroom earlier this year which I came across on Design Sponge  and a few weeks ago I twisted my husband’s arm to go to a local brocante in Bonnieux where we came across a stall selling antique [...]

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