Still lifes from before

 

 "African violets and pears"

27x36cm, oil on masonite

"Iris sur toile cirée"

60x50cm, oil on canvas

Paintings from Trouville, France

Souvenirs from Normandy (location paintings in oil):



"La poissonnerie et le quai" (August 1986)
13 x 16 inch, oil on canvas
Private collection, USA




Les Vaches Noires (the cliffs in the distance),
painted in Villers sur Mer early one morning in August 1986 

"Les Vaches Noires" 
22x27cm, oil on canvas





This canvas has a lot of sand in the paint! 

"La Plage de Trouville"
24 x 30 cm, oil on canvas


Another sandy canvas of the beach in Trouville, where you can see a bit of the Hotel des Roches Noires on the right.

"La Plage avec l'Hotel des Roches Noires"
18x24cm, oil on canvas

Here's a link to Monet's painting of the hotel (which I know well because I copied it twice!): Monet


VIEWS FROM MY WINDOWS:


"Rooftops before the storm"
19x24cm, oil on canvas panel



"Rooftops with church"
50x40 cm, oil on canvas

"Rooftops in the sun"
22.5 x 27.5 cm, oil on masonite



From another window:

"Villas on the hill"
30 x 24 cm, oil on canvas

"Near Deauville"
6x8 inch, oil on canvas panel




"Sunset in Trouville"
24x19cm, oil on canvas

"En passant par la Lorraine"

"Le Jardin botanique à Montigny les Metz" 
16.5 x 12 cm, oil on canvas paper

"La Cathédrale de Metz" (1989)
22x16cm, oil on canvas panel
(private collection, France)

"Le Palais de Justice à Metz" (1990)
19x27cm, oil on canvas panel

"Le Hameau de Colming avec une botte de foin" (August 2003)
24x30cm, oil on canvas

"View of the road from Colming to Bettange" (August 2003)
24x30cm, oil on canvas
(private collection, USA)

"Bettange seen from Colming" (August 2003)
24x30cm, oil on canvas
(private collection, USA)

"Le Hameau de Colming avec l'arbre" (August 2003)
18x24cm, oil on canvas
(private collection, Metz)

Church in Montigny les Metz (painted from the Botanical gardens in 1990) 
15.5 x 21cm, oil on canvas paper

Views from the back balcony of our apartment in Montigny-les-Metz in 1989.



"Metz rooftops with red tree"
19x24 cm, oil on canvas paper

"View from back balcony" 
24x18cm, oil on canvas panel

Paintings from Metz, France

"St Pierre aux Nonnains à Metz" (1990)

18x24cm, canvas panel



"Promenade à Metz" (1990)

30x40cm, oil on canvas
(private collection, Brussels)

"Vue de Metz" (1990)
18 x 24 cm, oil on canvas




"La Moselle à Metz" (March 1990)
40x60cm, oil on canvas

Abbesses

An early attempt at painting from a photograph. 

"Abbesses"

oil on canvas

(private collection, Dilbeek)