Chateau Corduriés, further reading

Chateau Corduriés near Castelnau de Montmiral, as one often does in that part of L’Occitane, I half expected to see the ‘Three Musketeers’ appear …!

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Instead, the owners of Chateau Corduriés,  Claude and Sylvie Picault appeared to ask what we were doing.
They invited us when we had finished, to visit the chateau, soon becoming firm friends.

 

This fine study measures 40 x 50 cm (15¾” x 19¾”)

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Detail
Detail

Chateau Corduriés, so very typical of rural South West France, is seen here painted on location

https://artfrickers.com/…/chateau-near-castelnau-de-montmir…/

 

Our challenge, one I have often accepted, was to see what would happen by painting in inclement weather.
At that time I was accompanied by another artist, from Bermuda.
We were studying based at the now renowned Painting School of Montmiral.
The Chateau Corduriés we choose to paint is an easy walk down hill passing fields and woodland from the bastide village of Castelnau de Montmiral.

 

Claude, a former master mariner, to my surprise, later commissioned two marine paintings
One became a spectacular study of ‘his’ Liberty ship “Trun” in heavy weather.
The other painting is a beautiful rendering of their classic family yacht, family shown onboard, “Nizou IV off Taormina in Sicily, Vesuvius in the background“.
http://www.frickers.co.uk/…/nizou-iv-off-taormina-in-sicil…/

 

Chateau Corduriés as painted is fortified chateau and the hot summer weather with occasional rain off the Pyrénées, is typical of this very fertile region,

The department, The Tarn, a region of untypical properties, many with strong echoes of Roman rural architecture, in the remote, mysterious L’Occitaine region of Midi-Pyrénées.
I’ve met people who say this region is “Paradise”; visit and you will soon discover why they say that.

 

This painting with its extraordinary ambience would make a fine reminder of Midi-Pyrénées, S W France, for a private collection, hotel or restaurant.

 

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