The Beach at Le Touessrok Watercolour 14 inches by 10.

Hi Readers

We sometimes like to escape the winter in the UK for a week or two and so this year we have just been to Mauritius.

Mauritius has a lovely climate, with a little rain so the whole countryside is very green, but the beaches are beautiful sand and the sea is very warm.

Most days in January the temperature gets up to 30C and even in the evenings it is very warm.

For my watercolour paintings it isn’t ideal as painting “en plain air” is very tricky (at least for me) but nevertheless I have managed to produce a few paintings during our holiday.

Some of them are for me unique as I painted then whilst reclining on sun bed on the beach at our resort of Le Touessrok. As one passer by said “well I have never seen that before!”  Le Touessrok, now a Shangri-La hotel is on the East coast of the island of Mauritius, which is often described, especially by the delightful Mauritian people, as “Paradise Island”

At the end of this post I have added a couple of paintings that I produced on previous trips to Mauritius as they also give different aspect of the area.

We like to play golf there as well as soaking up the sun and the golf course, (which you get to on a boat!) is on Ile des Cerfs, and is very challenging, but beautiful. It was designed by Bernard Langer, a famous Golf professional.

Now we are back in the UK and it does seem cold here, but those 10 days in the sun will be good memory while winter is still here.

I hope you enjoy the paintings

Happy Travelling!

Brian

“Sailing By”. Watercolour 14 inches by 10.

“Homeward Bound”   Watercolour 14 by 10

“Fishing off the Reef”. Watercolour 14 by 10.

“Grand Bay, at the north of Mauritius”. Watercolour 14 by 10.

And a couple from previous visits

The view from the Green at 11th hole at Le Touessrok, Mauritius

The Bernard Langer course at Le Touessrok from the air.

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Thanks

Brian