The Hautes-Alpes are my family's original department, and more precisely the hamlet of Les Paroirs, 2km from the small town of Veynes. My mother did the genealogy of my ancestors and was able to go back to 1610, and the Blanc family was already in the hamlet, living in one of the two oldest houses there.
I have spent every summer holiday there from my earliest childhood to this day.
It is a region that I have traveled by car, by bike and on foot, hiking, on the many paths leading to magnificent mountain lakes.
This is how I created several watercolors of my beloved mountains and the small villages and houses nestling in the valleys in 1999. I painted them from life, equipped with my outdoor easel attached to the luggage rack of my bicycle.
I hope to share my enthusiasm for this magnificent region with you through my works.
This is the village of Serres, 12 km south of my hamlet of Les Paroirs, perched on the steep glacial cliff. It's summer, and the roofs stand out orange against the brown rock. The sky is stormy. It's August in the afternoon, and it's still very hot.
