Hello all, I would like to offer a few lines of good wishes to you all. 2014 has been a good year over here. It has been a year of new beginnings, peace and good health, fun with family and friends – new and old. And then there were all the good wanders, good reads,…
new painting – alpine valley in October (also give-away)
Hello all, I hope that you have had a fun and peaceful Christmas! We had a good one with all the attendant rush and overindulgence. Luckily, we also had some blustery winter weather over Boxing Day and today to give us a good excuse for staying home and relaxing (except for a little sledding and…
new painting – Eigergletscher
Hi all, Above is my newest painting and my very first “commission” – or sort of, anyway. I was contacted a few weeks back by a fellow member of an English language forum here in Switzerland where I also post my paintings. She asked if I had any paintings from the Jungfrau region for sale….
making new christmas traditions
Hi all, As mentioned before, we are new to this part of Switzerland. In fact, this is our first Christmas here. When moving here, we gave up a lot: good friends, community, a sense of being established and (not least) a stone’s throw distance to shopping in France and Germany. Don’t get me wrong – we…
new painting – “Lost on Flumserberg”
Hi there, So I lied. It took more than a few days to get this new one on here. I am starting to get busy with seasonal stuff, so am not painting as much as I would like. It feels like it took a tremendously long time to finish this one. But it didn’t really….
weekend wander – nov 30/14
Hello all! The snow may not be here yet, but the Christmas season has officially begun with the first of the four weeks of Advent. That means chocolate-filled calendars and advent candles on sunday, christmas markets and gluhwein. Around here it also seems to mean fog thick as pea soup – which I guess kind of…
new painting – autumn bluff at flumserberg
Hi all, Well, after some toil over the last 2-3 weeks I now have a new painting completed. At 60 x 80 cm it is little larger than my usual projects, but surprisingly did not take much longer. I credit a growing sense of confidence and experience with this small improvement. More specifically, I am…
music to paint to
Hi all, No weekend wander to post this week. I had hopes that I would get some good photos from our trip to the 500 year old Basel Herbstmesse, but by the time we got there it was fairly dark and I sadly have no talent with night-time photography, as you can see below. Today I…
size matters
Hi all, I mentioned in my most recent post that I am currently fishing around for something to paint. Everything for the last while has been on a relatively small scale (size) – which means less commitment, quicker turnaround, arguably less impact. For me, rookie that I am, it also is much less intimidating. But…
weekend wander – or more like a week and a half in october
Hi there, It has been two weeks since my friends from California came and then left again, leaving me missing them and sick with some sort of euro-superbug for which I was made susceptible by too many late nights. These are ladies of great energy and enthusiasm. In the animal world they would be parrots…
new painting – “Autumn View from Rothorn”
Hi all, Finally, after a summer of laziness, a new painting. This one is a scene from a recent family trip to Zermatt (“weekend wander” entry to follow). The scene itself is a view taken from the top of the Rothorn station, facing out just a bit to the right of the glacier there. Being…
weekend wander – october 5/14
Hello all! I am so happy to finally take a moment and put together another weekend wander. I have had two of ’em sitting in the rafters waiting and have been really wanting to share them. However, I have been preparing for and now have two very special guests from my old town in California…
The Tipsy Pine 