Alex Russell Flint’s interiors education

Alex Russell Flint’s paintings have a storybook quality. Precisely observed bucolic scenes in realist style, they are often undercut by hints of tension. It’s fitting, then, that his home in the rolling hills of the Poitou-Charentes region of France, an imposing 19th-century schoolhouse that served the once-thriving village of Argenton-Château, could have jumped straight from the pages of a children’s picture book. 

Russell Flint, who is the great-grandson of the watercolourist…