Artists Inspired by Provence · Inspire · Keith Van Sickle Vincent Van Gogh in St-Rémy-de-Provence May 30, 2025St-Rémy’s most famous former resident is undoubtedly Vincent van Gogh, who spent a year there as a mental patient after cutting off his ear in Arles. While in St-Rémy, he painted several masterpieces, including Irises and The Starry Night. The place where Van Gogh was interned, Saint-Paul de Mausole, has recently been refurbished. So, you …Continue Reading
Books on Provence · Carolyne Kauser-Abbott · Inspire One Sip at a Time a Journey from Silicon Valley to St Remy de Provence March 15, 2017It took 20 visits to Provence before Keith Van Sickle and his wife decided to make the region their part-time home. A Northern California native, Van Sickle spent his early years on an island in the San Francisco Bay – Alameda, California. “It’s a sleepy town, an oasis of 1950’s America in the middle of …Continue Reading
Carolyne Kauser-Abbott · Inspire · Shopping & Gifts February Giveaway: Phone Case by Raina Stinson February 1, 2021Raina Stinson Photography Raina Stinson took a leap of faith and made a complete lifestyle change. In 2018, she swapped the US West Coast for a tiny village in the Luberon Valley. It was a cold February day when Raina arrived in the hamlet of Goult and to her new home, a stone, Provencal farmhouse …Continue Reading
Guest Post · Inspire · Photographers in Provence 49th Rencontres d’Arles Photography in July May 24, 2018‘BACK TO THE FUTURE’ is the theme for the 49th Rencontres d’Arles photography exhibition. ‘This year, you are invited to cross space and time with a breathtaking, celestial journey across the ages. Photography is often the best-placed medium for registering all the shocks that remind us the world is changing, sometimes right before our eyes’, they write. …Continue Reading
