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An excellent new art show, featuring the work of some of the best Artists in France is now in progress at the Bernard Ceysson Gallery in Saint Etienne, Rhône-Alpes. Jean Villevieille – Multiples December 09, 2009 – March 06, 2010 Artists : Atelier Jean Villevieille Claude Viallat, Patrick Saytour, . Ivan Messac, Robert Janitz, Daniel […]
This French Life in 2010 and all the exceedingly useful information this site has to offer, plus a brand new, professional French networking site called ‘Survive France Network’ – helping you live and work in France. Purefrancenow has now linked in! www.purefrancenow.com
This December Lyon’s Féte des Lumiéres is once again a stunning display of creativity, originality and history. Developed over the years from the 19th century when on one particular night people commemorated the Virgin Mary by lighting candles in their windows. The modern four-day event sees millions throng the streets to see marvellously illuminated buildings […]
More unique and highly creative imagery from British artist, John Clough, are now featured in the Pure Art Gallery. A new series of graphic, digital canvassess from this Yorkshire born artist are now available for sale in different size and style formats. John also translates his concepts into special, large-scale, original acrylic paintings which are […]
Jean-Pierre Pyat started painting in November 1964 and has hardly ever stopped since. He is a dedicated and prolific creator of superbly crafted images from everyday life, as well as landscape, and figurative. At first concentrating on figurative realism, then, as the years went by, he discovered more of what really interested him, with influences […]
The Exciting Bernard Ceysson Art Gallery in Saint Etienne, Rhône-Alpes. For the Autumn of 2009, the 3 Bernard Ceysson galleries each have their own and original agenda with all new shows. In Paris, although Franck Chalendard (09/09/05 – 09/10/17) and Assan Smati (09/10/23 – 09/12/12) had already showed their work recently in the Saint-Étienne and […]
October saw Brasserie Clemenceau in Roanne celebrate their 3 year anniversary with wine and song, and ten-pin bowling! An exceptional evening of fun, excellent food, good friends, and entertainment. All laid on free and gratis by the owners Francis Kuchenbuch and Jean-Louis Clot. Over 400 guests were invited for this great evening of celebration – […]
BBC Masterchef: professionals finished with a resounding finale this week. An exceptional programme featuring some of the best young professional chefs in the UK. The standard of cooking has been remarkable. Some of the world’s top Michelin-starred chefs were invited onto the programme to test and comment on the 3 finalist’s food preparation’s at a […]
During the October festival of the ‘Roanne Table Ouverte’ a ‘Salon du Livre’ (Book show) was staged in Roanne, primarily in celebration of all things to do with food and cooking. 1000’s of books were available on all cookery subjects, and featuring many famous French chefs and their recipes. There were also plenty of ‘collector’ […]
Early October at ‘Les Halles Diderot’ in Roanne was filled with the umistakable aromas of good cuisine, and the exceptional flavours of high quality food and wine from the best of the Roannaise. The annual event of ‘Table Ouverte’ (Open Table), held throughout the month of October, was well and truly inaugurated on Monday 5th […]
A new exhibition of photography by Nicolas Jorge was held during June 2009 in Le Coteau, Roannais, Rhone-Alpes called “Essai D’Art 2009” . The theme of this superb photographic show was ‘Rugby’. Nicolas Jorge exhibited large-scale, black and white images of the local Roanne Rugby Club – AS Roanne Rugby XV. Over 1,500 people visited […]
The Pure Art Gallery, hosted by www.purefrancenow.com, welcomes Mike Ford to their select portfolio of international artists, photographers, and image-makers. Mike Ford’s unusual and eclectic images and style of photographic approach is internationally renowned. A highly creative and original image ‘artist’, Mike’s special gallery presentation adds a particularly contemporary and poignant quality to The Pure […]