I'm a 48 year old English artist, living and working in Burgundy, France.

The vehicle linework illustrations that feature on this site I create using
my computer. There was a time when I would have used technical pens and ink at the drawing board to render these images - I now save the

technical pens for use in other types of illustrations, mainly line and wash.
However, it is very clear where I have used different media to portray a
certain subject. I cover all subject matters and apply what I feel is the right medium with which to work to create the image.

Cars and other 'hardware' subjects can be rendered in line by hand or on the PC or in full colour work, in inks, paint or crayon. I have a particularly marked crayon style, the technique lends a certain 'fluidity'
to what can otherwise seem a static image.

I adore cars and 'planes in particular, but see suitable subject matter in
all manner of man-made objects. I delight in the finer examples of design. I think of good design, when it works well both in practical and the visual
sense, as being almost sculptural.

One extension of painting is to create a sensual product and I have taken to painting commissions on a variety of surfaces. For example, I recently
completed a 'classic' car with its marque badge, painted in gouache onto an
ancient glazed French roof tile - itself a pleasing object. In the past, I
designed house names and painted them onto chunks of concrete, or stone
taken from a development, or something pertaining to the site.

I have developed story boards for TV production and interpretation board
proposals for environmental projects, large-scale site hoarding artwork for
house building companies along with all their publicity and information
material (I have always been a graphic designer for print and promotion),
designed and created artwork for murals to accompany shopping facilities and love the imagery creation challenge.

Now that I have come to France, in addition to expanding my range of work, I give others the opportunity to discover how pleasing making images can be.  As a result of living in some of the finest French countryside, I have  recently turned my painting attention to abstract work.
These are not, 'though, random imaginations, but an application of
relatively logical thought processes. The finished images are always the
result of having been inspired by an image - frequently taken from the
photography that both I and my wife Catherine undertake.  Initially, I perceive certain attributes existent in the photographic (or other) acquired image. Then, I use my imagination to explore the image further and ask many questions about it - the 'what if . . ' type question. The result is not always what one would expect - but usually pleasing nonetheless. I use gouache, acrylics (often with palette knives - a  favourite of mine) but rarely oils.

Our 1739 maison is beautiful in itself - but being of Bressane design, it
affords me a covered plinth - a ready made surface to work on as a street
artist would! It's ideal for chalk-work. Chalk illustration of this ilk is
fascinating and a challenge in many senses. On a hard external surface its
main attraction is that it can be a here-today, gone-tomorrow exercise -
whatever is created is a real moment in time.

Chalk and charcoal is ironically where I started - at school in my form
room - the school Art Room. Wonderful objects such as ancient
full- size printing presses and bleached cattle skulls were my inspiration.
This led to my work being nationally exhibited over the course of several
years by winning exhibition space as a finalist, through nationally held
school art competitions.

And so I have come full circle - I now do what I was doing at school, but
for a living!

Please do not hesitate to contact me to commission me, enquire about
ordering images be they painted or photographic (my wife Catherine can also comment about the photographic images available, or to be commissioned to  produce them), to discuss painting holidays, or plain and simple chambres  d'hotes if you're down our way!

Contact details:-

Colin Winn, "Picture Burgundy", Beauvernois, 71580,

Savigny en Revermont,
Bourgogne, France.