First published 5 October 2016 After looters, the graffiti artists were next to visit the abandoned holiday village in Pirou. For fifteen years they have created vibrant images on these crumbling walls, the local police asking only that they leave no rubbish. It was a colourful secret until early this year
Art
The painter of pretty Normandy; Louis Aston Knight – Picture post!
First published 2017 There are fashions in art, and carefully laid out histories that link artistic movements together. And then there are the other paintings. Pretty things that people hang on wall and like to look at without thinking very much. Except perhaps to remember clear, slow rivers touched by softly
A tidily dressed man, in Honfleur
Or, the passions of Fernand Herbo. This post appeared in our original blog Honfleur Then and Now, in 2012. Walking around Le Vieux Basin in Honfleur is often a chance to admire artists at work, as they endeavour to capture the shimmering light and remarkable landscape of this ancient port. Today's postcard
The agonies of Monet’s 26th year
First published January 2015 Our Sainte-Adresse lighthouse postcard match took us to such a remarkable view point we thought Monet, once an occasional resident here, must have been inspired by the sun setting on this vast seascape. So we looked into his life at Sainte-Adresse only to find a shocking story. Behind 'The
Honfleur at the end of the 19th century, in photochrom
Taken between between 1890 and 1900, these photochrom images of Honfleur are at once familiar yet remote. We recognise buildings but can only envy the photographer who saw a steam ship dock by the Chenin Blanc hotel, or took a horse drawn carriage ride past la Lieutenance. Photochrom, a method of adding colour