Deborah Lawrenson

A spring morning in the South of France...just wandering through the streets of an ordinary little town feels like a sensuous adventure. ...

  The rotten almonds on this tree tell the story: the winter was long and wet; torrential rains bore down even in early spring. How do ...

  The point of art is to make us look again at the world with new insight. Hardly surprising, then, that the monolithic yet sensuous ex...

Monet, Renoir, Matisse, Derain, Signac, Dufy, Chagall, Bonnard: the shores of the Mediterranean drew them all to paint the bright, warm c...

  Talking of honey (as I was last post), the mirabelle tree is humming - extraordinarily loudly - with bees. There are hives a few fiel...

"The fortnight (...) passed quickly and sweetly - perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless."  I couldn't hel...

Happy Easter in pastels from Provence...in almond blossom on the point of flowering, macaroons in the specialist confectioner's shop ...