A picture paints a thousand words...

 So what motivates you to spend every holiday, all your energy and every spare penny you have in converting an ancient farmhouse/ barn into a working studio gite? Well a picture paints a thousand words so here is Le Fresnay in the glory of summer.

Added to this I had been an artist without studio all my professional life. Well that's if you don't count the 7,000 sq metre university studio that I lectured in for so many years. As a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art (Staffordshire University), I had for over ten years,been the field trip organiser both in the UK and France and loved every minute, well most.


What better way to achieve several dreams; the pleasure of teaching art from the basics, the delight  in having an amazing painting / art studio and living in France. This was not just living the dream it was being the dream and is the dreamer