When I visited the LVF on a very hot day a few weeks ago, my objective was to see this exhibition, which has now moved on to Japan. The exhibition presented the collection of the British entrepreneur and art patron Samuel Courtauld, which had not been shown in Paris...
The Louis Vuitton Foundation opened in 2014 and I’ve been meaning to go there for the last five years! It is located next to the Jardin d’Acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne, the park on the west side of Paris and I finally visited a few weeks ago, on a...
I recently went to an exhibition at the Musée de Luxembourg, which is in the gardens of the same name. Over the years I’ve spent quite a lot of time in the Jardins de Luxembourg, first as a student when I was getting a postgrad qualification and many years later, as a...
When I was a teenager, I secretly wanted to be an artist, like my mother, who went to art school in her forties. But I was not ready then, I did not have her artistic flair, so I studied languages and art history instead. My life long interest in art, both classic and...
Winter in my little corner of France, near Paris, is generally wet, grey and desperately uninspiring. It’s a time for photographing still life images inside and doing digital housekeeping, by which I mean trying to tidy the mess my photo files inevitably get...
Last week, the first week in February, it snowed heavily here in the Paris area, all of 19 cm, approximately 7.5 inches ! Now if I lived in the city, I would have been out dawn to dusk capturing all that lovely architecture and Frenchness with a trimming of snow....
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