Christine Laverne - Georges Bronner

The authors

As academic geologists and amateur watercolorists, we create geology books, as author-illustrators or illustrators, to introduce geology and the profession of geologist to as many people as possible. With educational and aesthetic concerns, we combine traditional naturalist painting with contemporary graphic tools to illustrate volcanoes, seabeds, vanished oceans, and Provençal geology. Our watercolors of Normandy and Venice join the literary paintings of Marcel Proust in several books.

The creation of these works and their presentation at book fairs and exhibitions provide an opportunity for exciting encounters with authors, graphic designers, publishers and readers.

This site, dedicated to our watercolor activities, presents our books as well as a gallery of watercolors, published or not.

Georges Bronner taught structural geology at the University of Dakar and then at the University of Aix-Marseille as a lecturer in Earth Sciences. He has carried out numerous missions in the Mauritanian desert to study the geology of a continent more than three billion years old and its iron deposits. He has been practicing watercolors for more than forty years. His favorite subjects are mountain and seascapes, whose fleeting impressions he attempts to capture. It is therefore essentially “on location” that he creates his paintings.

Christine Laverne taught petrography at the National School of Engineers of Sfax (Tunisia) for ten years and then at the University of Aix-Marseille, as a lecturer in Earth Sciences. For more than thirty years, her research has focused on the mineralogical and petrographic study of oceanic crust rocks, particularly their interaction with seawater. She has participated in numerous oceanographic campaigns in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. She enjoys field geology, analyzing rocks under a microscope... and watercolors.