Last week I paid a visit to a city I have long been interested in seeing. Thanks to friends of my sister, Caroline & Olivier, I was able to stay in town.We took the old-style train (no TGV yet!) and...

Just back from a short visit with a friend to Italy's capital. The city is much smaller and greener than I remembered, and looks like a nice place to live. Although I was there for only 3 1/2 days, we...

Back in Provence after 7 days on the Emerald Isle. My California artist friend, Susan Kirshenbaum, agreed to join me for a week of drawing and discovery in this loveable country. We chose the spot we stayed in based on images...

Last December, my friends Anne & Jean-Charles Oziemblowski and I took a 3-day training session to make me capable of helping out at the local chapter of this national organisation. There was so much to remember that I ended up doing drawings...

Once again, the approach of the Winter Solstice got me ruminating on the passage of time, and the effects of the changing seasons. Now that I'm in Provence (as opposed to Northern California), the delineation among them is sharper. I...

Last year I posted about the big Pétanques event of St Cannat; I've designed a fabric based on drawings of lazy summer afternoons in Provence: the Pastis, the players, the precious shade, floppy dogs, and other iconic elements so familiar...

I was commissioned to create an illustration evoking the feel of films made in and about Marseille for a "web doc" to be used interactively at the History Museum of Marseille.

I was lucky enough to have been invited to join my friends/family Dick & Barbara Currier on their holiday cruising the Canal du Midi. The barge they rented was luxurious, with 3 cabins—each with its own bathroom—a comfortable, well-equipped kitchen, plus...