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Budding Trees over the River Rosey  Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic/crayon/canvas   13 x 16"  33 x 41cm   550.00

We’ve just finished week two at our Maison de Simon Art Residency.   We have had some artist guests, who have enhanced my experience greatly (Blair loves to paint alone).  A pastel artist will come for the day on Monday.  We pick her and her husband up at the Vernon (near Giverny) train station.  Easy-peasy. (I am making pea soup with a leftover ham bone as we speak and that expression just drips off my tongue.  I may serve it with ham sandwiches to my guests) We’ve been walking a lot along the nearby Rosey river, and spotted large-ish fish in the lock associated with an old mill. I wonder if they are on a quest to spawn, and if they can forge the dam.   I saw a vole, too, and there are flocks of ducks and coots and assorted water birds.

Mercury's Cap  Blair Pessemier   Acrylic/canvas   10.5 x 14"  27 x 35cm   550.00

It is very “Norman” here.   There are long slanted, slate-tiled roofs – and some roofs are even thatched.  The bulbs hidden within their peaks  have sprung leaves and are about to erupt in  iris, tulips, hyacinths.    The houses seem miniature to me, as if the road rose up to shorten the doorway.  I am a big person and always feel a little like Alice in Wonderland in this environment.   Not so, our barn/house/artstudio – it is quite large and comfortable, toasty warm, with views of the countryside.

Birch Trees in the Garden    Lauriie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic/crayon/cardboard   20 x 28"   50 x 70cm   550.00

My first work here was to paint an apple tree.  We bought a (supermarket) bottle of Calvados  for cooking – I put some in my clementine marmalade, but haven’t sipped any yet.  Have you tried Calvados?  It’s a Norman Apple Liquor somewhere between applejack and brandy.  Associated prices and headaches vary.  We need drinking guests to get our calvados testing underway.

Reading a Letter   Blair Pessemier   Acrylic/canvas  39.5  x  25.5" 100  x 65cm  750.00

Blair has been painting people and today we are in quest of a Norman apple grower.  We’re going out to try to photograph a man in an orchard, but that failing, my last ditch effort will be to go to a Calvados store and buy a postcard or book that might be available.   And test the local brew, of course.

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