The relationship between art and travel is well established, but less well known or considered by modern day travellers. It was Victorian poets especially but also with writers and artists who first considered the English Lake District as a tourist destination. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, De Quincey all wrote about what they saw, inspiring others to “come and see”. The area of Provence will be forever associated with Van Gogh, especially around Arles and whenever one sees a field of sunflowers, and we recently wrote about the colours of Andalucia seen so much in Picasso’s works displayed in Malaga.
Yesterday we discovered Art We Wonderful, the blog of Marion Younan which caught our eye quite literally with her wonderful sketches. She is a full time artist who travels to sketch (have I got that right way round?) and whose artwork and writing beautifully captures a scene, a building, a door …..
We hope you enjoy the places she visits through her work as much as we do, particularly this example from A Very Early Morning in Provence. Do visit!