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LLoret de Mar Artist Denise Mathyse only swims in warm water.

Swiss born Denise Mathyse at her beautiful home in Lloret de Mar.

Some weeks ago the Calyenty office at Calonge took a phone call from an interesting Costa Brava personality. Swiss born artist Denise Mathyse likes to swim in warm water and despite this summer’s hot weather, the pool at Denise’s stunning Lloret de Mar property was still too cool for her and her sister wth whom she shares her splendid property, to comfortably swim in.

As is our policy at Calyenty we went to survey the installation and found an Aladdin’s cave of beautiful artwork, mainly created by the proprietor, Denise, in a fantastically interesting property, again mainly designed by the artist, with little balconies overlooking the spectacular azure blue bay of Lloret punctuated with Mediterranean plants of all shapes and colours.

Calyenty's David Brown admires Denise Mathyse canvases at her LLoret de Mar home/studio

Artist Denise Mathyse moved to Lloret de Mar from Switzerland some forty years ago to follow a dream. That dream was to fall in love and follow the Bohemian lifestyle of painting where the natural sunlight of the Costa Brava illuminates her subjects to a kaleidoscope which feature in most of her canvases. Denise likes to paint in oils, which enable her to create the vivid colour exchanges that marks her work out and gives it her unique character.

One of Denise's impressionist works.

It is always risky to compare the works of different artistes but there are influences from Rousseau, Monet and her almost namesake Matisse in Denise’s work.

Denise's work is always full of surprises, spot the cat peering from the canvas.

A week after we installed Denise's pool heater she called us to report that she believed that her new system could not be working properly ‘I still cant swim, it is too cold’ she told us. Service is everything at Calyenty so we went to explore, no problem with the heater, we just needed to turn it up a little.

Denise and her sister are now enjoying swimming every day in perfect swimming conditions of 31 degrees Centigrade.