France Diary 2004
Sous les Oliviers de Fayence...
& autres paysages...
my lunchy picnic spot...
In the early summer of 2004 I worked at the Mas Peyron at Fayence, in the Var. Here I started the Capri-Caoprices that were eventually to be seen in Sydney. But I took timme 'off' and sketched the old old olives in the garden...
28.iv
potted ger, 30.iv
1.v 
5.v
13.ix 
Lunchtime Autumn by the Cure, drawn with
charcoal taken on an inspiration from the picnic-site barbeque just there; thank
you, Normainé, for charcoal - and Chablis!!
Croquis des Bistrots de Paris...
bistro des Augustins - café Charbon - Chartier - le Conti - le Goya - LaMarck - Au Pied du Cochon - la Portée des Halles - la Villa du Poulbot - le Rostand - au Temps des Cerises - le Zimmer - à suivre!
Often in 2004 I found myself in Paris.... which means, often in bars and cafés. My young bully Idlewilde insisted I scribble sketches and so indeed, I took to sketching, sometimes in books and sometimes on postcards to send back.
Note that there are more recent sketches on the Moleskine page...
Favourite haunts follow...
not least the Rostand, rue des Medicis, at the Jardins de Luxembourg, sketched here in 2001:
Bistro des Augustins, quai des St Augustins
oui, avec auto-portrait!
Au Temps des Cerises, dans le Marais 
Le Conti, St Germain 
Le Goya, Neuilly 
La Portée des Halles 
La Villa du Poulbot, au 18e 
Au Pied du Cochon, aux Halles 
Le Zimmer 
& la femme en face 
qui travaille...
Chartier 
dont un maître d'hôtel que je regarde -
regarde tout... 
Café Charbon, rue Oberkampf 
et parmi les Corses à LaMarck à Montmartre, parmi les musiciens...
dont le patron... 
et son ami qui arriva... 
et 
Morgane qui laisse Valentine coiffer ses cheveux...