The authors
We combine our activities as university geologists and amateur watercolor painters to write and illustrate geology texts, hoping to make knowledge of geology and our profession more accessible to a greater public. Attentive to both pedagogy and aesthetics, we link traditional naturalist painting techniques and modern graphic tools to illustrate the volcanoes, ocean floors, lost oceans and Provence geology that we discuss. Our watercolors of Normandy and Venice are grouped with the literary paintings of Marcel Proust in several of our books.
Producing and presenting these works at book fairs and exhibitions create the opportunity for exciting and encouraging encounters with other authors, graphists, editors and readers.
This site, dedicated to our watercolor work, presents our books along with a gallery of paintings, published or unpublished.
Christine Laverne was a senior lecturer of geosciences at Aix-Marseille University, France. For the last thirty years, her research has been devoted to the study of rocks from the oceanic crust, and particularly their interaction with seawater. She has participated in numerous oceanographic cruises, has written many scientific papers, and has created the watercolor illustrations for several books. She likes field geology, studying rocks with the microscope, and painting watercolors.
Georges Bronner was a senior lecturer of geosciences at Aix-Marseille University, France. His main research based on field investigations and remote sensing has been devoted to the structural geology and iron metallogeny of ancient earth’s crust in the West-African desert (Mauritania). He has written and illustrated with watercolors several books on geology of south-east France. His favorite subjects are mountains and sea, therefore he is painting from life.
Last news
G.B. & C.L. We exhibit at the Houlgate casino
The Houlgate Casino restaurant will host our watercolours from April 1 to 30, 2023. Welcome to the opening on April 8 at 4 pm.
G.B. The Bread, a new booklet, is published in september
After The Cat, the Carré Pliés collection is enriched with a new title, Le Pain, with watercolours by Georges and a poem by Arthur Rimbaud.
G.B. & C.L. Start of our exhibition in Houlgate on July 31
On Sunday morning, July 31, we hang our watercolours. If all goes well, at the beginning of the afternoon, we welcome the public. Afterwards, the exhibition will be open non-stop…
G.B. & C.L. Only two months left before our exhibition of watercolors in Houlgate
We will present the original watercolors from our four accordion books (Carrés Pliés) at the exhibition hall of Houlgate from July 31 to August 6.
C.L. The cat invites himself in a new folding book
The Carrés Pliés collection of Cahiers du Temps editions is enriched by a new title, The cat, where watercolors by Christine accompany the poem by Charles Baudelaire.
G.B. & C.L. Exhibition of our watercolors in Houlgate early August 2022
We will present the original watercolors from our four accordion books (Carrés Pliés) at the exhibition hall of Houlgate from July 31 to August 6. We would be very happy…
G.B. & C.L. A box set for our first three booklets
The editions Cahiers du Temps now offer the first three folded squares (Man and the sea, Elevation, Scent of my country) presented in a box set.
G.B. & C.L. Exhibition and signings in Dives around the Carrés pliés
The Cahiers du Temps editions present their collection of accordion books at the Dives-sur-mer media library from February 26 to April 2. We would be happy to meet you there…
G.B. L’éternité, a new booklet, published in January 2022
Cahiers du Temps publish L’éternité, a new leaflet book where watercolours of Corsica at dawn, painted by Georges, rub shoulders with the verses of Arthur Rimbaud.
G.B. & C.L. Franco-Italian version of the booklet Elévation
After the French-English version published in April 2021, here is Elevazione, a Franco-Italian version of the accordion booklet about mountains, essentially the Franco-Italian Alps.