Carnet de voyage
Recollections of travels, mainly through France, Belgium, Spain, and Italy. They are a combination of sketches, photography, and handwritten notes.
Interview about sketching on location
While I was on a sketching trip in Mallorca, I got a surprise call from a journalist at a Belgian national newspaper. The reason? A recent episode of the television program Gloria Mundi, in which presenter Gloria Monserez sketches scenes while travelling with a guest in their homeland. The show brings the practice of drawing… Continue reading
The oldest house in Oppède-le-Vieux
Oppède-le-Vieux, our residency of the past twenty years, is perched on a rocky outcrop in the Luberon region of Provence. It’s known for its medieval architecture, rich history and vegetation. But also its desolation and silence. The name says it all, ‘vieux’ (old in French), and I wondered what the oldest house in the village… Continue reading
A Double-chambered Vessel
It was during the time I had just begun my first lessons in graphic techniques at the academy. My greatest source of inspiration were the drawings I had made during a long stay in Mexico. (More about that in this blog post: Mexico, my plein air sketch roots.) The archaeological sites of Tula and Teotihuacan… Continue reading
Mexico 1986, my plein air sketch roots
While unpacking after moving between houses recently, I stumbled upon one of my first sketchbooks with plein air sketches. A pack of memories came back to me, together with the rediscovery of my roots of why I write and draw. I must have been around 19 years old at the time. Of course, I sketched… Continue reading
A commissioned travel journal
Almost without exception, my travel journals are for personal use. It does happen that an isolated drawing ends up as an illustration in an article or book. But then, it is out of his original context. So when the Deputy Creative Director of Road & Track (Hearst magazines) contacted me, I was challenged! If I… Continue reading
Ode to Lizzie Napoli
Créatrice of Carnets de Voyages avant la lettre. As such Lizzie Napoli should not be missing in my series about following in the footsteps of famous carnettistes. Continue reading
About Me
World citizen with a notebook in hand to write, sketch and tell stories with all senses present.
This blog is a zibaldone in itself — part notebook, part stage, where fragments turn into text, images, and sometimes motion. Mostly on keeping a zibaldone, Provence, sketching and stories of all kind.
Recent Posts
- Interview about sketching on location
- The oldest house in Oppède-le-Vieux
- A Double-chambered Vessel
- Thinking through making
- Coup d’État
- Mexico 1986, my plein air sketch roots
- A commissioned travel journal
- The creation of a story map: Moulin Saint-Augustin, Oppède
- The landscape as memory
- The cultural artefact in the Provençal landscape
