Detail #blossoms #oilpainting

In my studio #oilpainting

"On the plum tree one plum, one blossomworth of warmth" Ransetsu Hattori (images: Hoitsu Sakai / Shoen Uemura)

#ArtExperience every Tuesday La Motte where various speakers will lead walkabouts. This year is a big one for the farm: half a century under Rupert family ownership. Rotating artworks invite you to come again and again.

Reclining Mother and Child, 1906 by Expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker #womensart

Almond blossoms showed the arrival of spring and #VanGogh loved the white blossoms & fruit of the tree. He painted this canvas when he learned of the birth of his nephew (who was named after him). This glorious painting was placed over the infants crib celebrating his new life.

'Hector' linocut by UK contemporary artist and printmaker Vanessa Lubach #womensart

#VanGogh's favorite saying was: "I would never recognize love that was not an action." His paintings: "The Good Samaritan" & "The Sower" give expression to love in action. Both of these works are about participation in the world by making an effort to improve it for others.

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‘Be in no doubt, though – the way to succeed is to keep courage and patience, and to carry on working hard’. 🌻 Vincent van Gogh, The Pink Orchard (1888)

We wish you a blessed Christmas and a season filled with peace, love and kindness. Treasure this special time and relish in the celebrations with loved ones. 🎨 The message of untamed love (2017) by Paula van Coller #festivewishes

There are certain things in life that are genuinely frightening: things we should run away from as fast we possibly can. Born in Berlin in 1923 Judith Kerr had a horrifically acute knowledge of true fear.

You know the whole "left brain is analytical, the right brain is creative" tripe? Well, that's not how it works! My colleagues and I just published a new study on the resting-state functional connectivity of eminent creative thinkers and we found some interesting things about

From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. — J.R.R. Tolkien