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 vacation 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 in 1999, several watercolors of my beloved mountains and the small villages and houses nestling in the valleys. 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.
I painted these plum trees along the small road bordering the back of our garden. It's the height of plum season; it's summer. Admire these twisted trunks; the plum trees are already quite old. In the background, you can make out a barn with two horses grazing peacefully in the field.
