Joke Frima lives and works in France but is very internationally oriented and appreciated. She is a member of the Portrait Society of America and honored as ARC Living Master with which she belongs to a select group of top international realists. Her paintings are distinguished frequently and regularly exhibited in museums around the world.
   

 

Madrogno  is the name of this plant in Portugal, in English called strawberry tree (nothing to do with strawberries). The fruits are a bit prickly and red when not ripe and deep yellow when they are ripe. The small landscape above the still life is the valley where I found this shrubby Madrogno tree in Portugal.
 

 

Painting in Italy
The Apuan Alps in Stazzema & Painting with model Sara at the church in Stazzema

 
 

Cherry painting 'in progress.......'
The idea is that you just feel like the bird that sits next to you in the tree and looks at the delicious cherries.
 

 

The mystery of the watermelons
That little green fruits are miniature watermelons and yeah ...... how that can be.....?

 

THE REAL PUMPKIN

  
                                                                                            THE PAINTING

This painting declared as one of the best still life from 2016 by the Portrait Society of America and also won the final place at the ARC International Live Salon Competition and therefore will hang later this year in theMEAM (Museu Europeu d'Art Modern) te Barcelona.