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I am Nancy, a French woman in her early fifties who discovered illuminations back in 1999. I live in the south of the country with three cats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Je suis Nancy, j\u2019entame la cinquantaine, et j\u2019ai d\u00e9couvert l\u2019art de peindre les enluminures en 1999. Je vis dans le sud de la France avec trois chats.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I started with messy paintings because I had very little information on how to paint these medieval beauties. I only had a couple of brushes, bad paint, and a book. The results were terrible! So I put aside illumination painting for a while until I had a class with Claire Travers in 2006, who taught me real medieval recipes and techniques to paint beautiful, vivid illuminations on goat vellum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J\u2019ai commenc\u00e9 par des peintures m\u00e9diocres, parce que je n\u2019avais que peu d\u2019informations pour savoir comment peindre ces beaut\u00e9s m\u00e9di\u00e9vales. Je n\u2019avais que deux pinceaux, de la mauvaise peinture et un bouquin. Les r\u00e9sultats \u00e9taient atroces ! Alors j\u2019ai mis de c\u00f4t\u00e9 la peinture quelque temps, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 un stage avec Claire Travers en 2006, qui m’a appris les vraies recettes et techniques m\u00e9di\u00e9vales pour peindre des enluminures belles et vivantes sur du parchemin de ch\u00e8vre.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: A. Carbajal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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