Last Thursday I returned from a month-long artist’s residency in Arles, France. Residencies vary quite widely in nature, from being simply a place of seclusion away from day-to-day distractions to allow the artist to focus on their work through to…
Another spot along the Van Gogh trail is the Hotel Dieu, the place where the painter both painted an image and spent some time there as a result of a wound to his ear. Usually, during the tourist hours, the…
We stood on the edge of the river Rhône near where Van Gogh painted Starry Night just about 130 years ago. Van Go painted another Starry Night in St. Remy-de-Provence, which about 30 km away. His painting of Le Café la…