A Painting A Week No 121 - Languedoc Harvest

For Sale - 11th February 2013
Languedoc Harvest
Size: 21 x 15cm
(Postage and handling included)

Another appropriate painting this week as we're here in the Languedoc again. There're no golden leaves left on the grapes now, but the countryside is still looking beautiful with its rows of bare vines, the golden sandy soil, and the huge skies.  We're staying with friends in the lovely village of Magalas, and seem to be spending an awful lot of time driving along what I always think of as 'Napoleon's French roads'! - long and straight and lined on either side with rows of bare plain trees, their silver trunks sparkling in the winter light.

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A Painting A Week No 116 - Autumn Colours, Languedoc

For Sale - 20th November 2012
Autumn Colours, Languedoc
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$90
(Postage and handling included)

When we were in the Languedoc region of France recently, everything was bursting into vibrant autumn colour. Autumn was my favourite season when we lived there, and I particularly love the changes in the thousands of hectares of grape vines in the area. Different rows seem to change to different colours, and each field seems to change at different times (if you get my drift!), so you have a glorious evolving patchwork effect everywhere you look.

I took this photo near the village of Villeveyrac.  We were cruising through the area and James and I both immediately spotted this view, with the coloured trees in the foreground just adding to the picture. I loved the row of olive trees near the centre of the picture as well!

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A Painting A Week No 93

For Sale - 14th September 2011

The Flamingos of the Languedoc

Size: 21 x 15cm

Price A$90

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One doesn't really associate flamingos with France, but near Montpellier, on the edge of the Camargue, there are numerous lagoons and canals, and that's where you'll find the flamingos!  Depending upon the time of the year (the majority do migrate south in the winter), you can see groups of them standing in the water, heads down whilst feeding on the salt shrimp which gives them their colour, or heads waving about in the air. Apart from the Camargue, south of Arles, the flamgoes mostly frequent the marshes near Palavas les Flots and on any trip through there, I've had the camera at the ready to photograph them - always tricky to find them in the right spot.

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A Painting A Week No 80

For Sale - 5th April 2011
Le Petit Mazet, Pezenas
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$90
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When we were living in France, I'd taken photos of this little building in each of the four seasons, with the idea of some paintings.  Now we're back in France for a week, and I recently completed this painting and was amazed to drive past yesterday and see the little building looking almost identical, with the flowering almond and vines in the same stages as last year when I took the photo.  The French term mazet roughly translates as a small agricultural workers' outbuilding. They are scattered all around the Languedoc in the midst of the vines.

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The Languedoc and Paris

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So before too long, off we went again, this time towards our old stomping ground of the Languedoc where Peter and I did battle with various bits of French bureacracy - not sure whether we've had a win yet, and my visa renewal is sure to be a long ongoing saga. It was nice to be in the familiar serenity of the valleys of vineyards until the weather packed up and we had two days of torrential rain. We did manage to visit Rouquefort and do a tour through the caves where they make the famous smelly cheese. Another damp day we went to Carcassonne, and we also introduced Rita to some of our favourite towns such as Sete (where we also managed to see a Raoul Dufy exhibition - one of my very favourite artists), and Pezenas.

 

Then it was Paris where we spent a week with Rita in a lovely apartment next to the Seine on the very smart Ile St Louis. This small island is like an oasis from the rush of the hectic city. It's almost as if someone dropped a small French village into the center of Paris, with its markets, bakeries, fromageries, cafés and us! Winter struck when we were there - a real wake up after the warmth of Greece, but at least we knew we could leave it behind when we left!

Our days in Paris were spent walking, and eating and shopping (well, Rita and I anyway!), and walking more. It was once again lovely to be there and have enough time to explore those parts I never seemed to get to on previous visits. There was a very big new Monet Exhibition on at the Grande Palais but sadly it was prebooked until November unless one was prepared to queue for 3 hours, which we weren't. We did visit Musee Marmotten though, after a lovely bus ride through to the 16th arrondissment. A lovely gallery of mostly Monet, and well worth the extra effort to get there.

After 6 weeks of wonderful travelling we headed back to the Languedoc in the TGV again - a wonderful way to travel but pity they had to stop the train a few stops earlier than expected - French strikes yet again. We spent a few more days in the Languedoc before another drive back to Greece to settle back into Koroni for our first Greek winter........ whatever that may bring.

A Painting a Week - No 44

For Sale - 22nd April 2010 [SOLD]
Languedoc Poppies #7
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$90
(postage and handling included)

Another little painting of poppies from photos I've taken in our Languedoc region of France. I will be working on some more of this series, and larger, over the next couple of months, so if you're interested, please let me know.

There are poppies flowering here in Greece as well - quite a different red than the French ones, deeper and even more vibrant (as most things in Greece tend to be)! I've previously seen fields of them up in Northern Greece, but down here in the south, there're far too many olive trees to allow for open fields!

I'll be adding more news to this blogspot about our move to Greece, over the next week or so, so stay tuned.

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A Painting a Week - No 40

For Sale - 12th January 2010
Languedoc Autumn
Size: 15 x 21cm
Price A$80
(Plus A$10 postage and handling)

Its certainly not autumn here any more, but I do have great memories of the brightly coloured vines in the fields all around us. I will try and tackle something 'wintery' for my next painting - something to portray the freezing cold, wind and snow that France has been having!

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A Painting a Week - No 27

For Sale - 21st September 2009   [SOLD]

Languedoc Poppies 5

Acrylic & Ink Painting

Size: 21 x 15cm

Price A$80

(Plus A$10 postage and handling)

Another one in my Languedoc Poppies series. Not exactly the right time of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, but for those of you experiencing spring in the Southern, the timing should be perfect!

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A Painting a Week - No 25

For Sale - 7th September 2009 [SOLD]

Collioure Archway

Acrylic & Ink Painting

Size: 21 x 15cm

Price A$80

(Plus A$10 postage and handling)

Back to Collioure again. As I've mentioned before, Collioure is a small port on the Mediterrean, not far from the Spanish border, and is associated with the Fauves painters. Its a really picturesque place with tiny narrow streets and brightly coloured buildings, and of course, the cafes and boats. To offset this though, the French military have a base nearby and are often seen jogging through the laneways, scaling the cliffs, or madly rowing about in rubber inflatables!

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A Painting A Week - No.12

For Sale - 9th February 2009
Agde, Languedoc
Acrylic & Ink Painting
Size: 12 x 18cm Mounted Size: 24 x 30cm
Price mounted: A$60 (Plus $A10 postage and handling)

This is a little street scene I did recently after having a wander around the ancient centre.
Agde is a town on the Herault River which was first founded in 600 BC by Greek navigators, so its been around a while!

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A Painting a Week - No.11

25th January 2009 [SOLD]
Languedoc Poppies No. 3
Acrylic & Ink Painting
Size: 18 x 12cm Mounted Size: 30 x 24cm
Price mounted: A$60 (Plus $A10 postage and handling)

I'm enjoying painting some flowers again, after all the buildings I've been working on lately!

A Painting a Week - No.10

For Sale - 19th January 2009  [SOLD]
Sète
Acrylic & Ink Painting
Size: 18 x 12cm Mounted Size: 30 x 24cm
Price mounted: A$60 (Plus $A10 postage and handling)

Sète is a bustling port about 20 minutes away from us. It sits at the foot of Mont St Clair with the Mediterranean on one side and the Etang de Thau (an enclosed salt water lake) on the other. It is France's largest Mediterranean fishing port and well known for its many canals and multitude of seafood restaurants.

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A Painting a Week - No.7

For Sale - 28th December 2008
Collioure Meanderings
Acrylic & Ink Painting
Size: 12 x 18cm Mounted Size: 24 x 30cm
Price mounted: A$60 (Plus $A10 postage and handling)

Once again a painting from this lovely seaside town further south. Its such a colourful place I'm often drawn to it when looking through my photos for subject matter. This photo was taken during a recent visit when it was warm enough to 'meander'!

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A Painting a Week - No.4

11th December 2008 [SOLD]
La Coquille
Watercolour, Acrylic & Ink Painting
Size: 12 x 18cm Mounted Size: 30 x 20cm
Price mounted: A$60 (Plus $A10 postage and handling)

I've driven past this little Coquillage (shellfish) outlet constantly, and the colours and the boat outside have always caught my eye! The coastal area near here is a big producer of shellfish, mostly oysters and mussels, and there are lots of these little shops and booths scattered along the coast. The one is in Meze, a nice little seaside town on the lagoon which opens out onto the Mediterrean near Sete.

A Painting A Week - No.3

8th December 2008 [SOLD]
Pezenas Cafe
Acrylic & Ink Painting
Size: 12 x 18cm Mounted Size: 24 x 30cm
Price mounted: A$60 (Plus $A10 postage and handling)

I took this photo in Pezenas about a month ago. Sadly, all the tables and chairs are now mostly inside in the warmth! Pezenas has been a buzzing market town since the Middle Ages. The 'old town' today is a maze of narrow streets with artiste's galleries and interesting small shops.

A Painting a Week - No.2

4 December 2008 [SOLD]
Languedoc Poppies
Acrylic & Ink Painting
Size: 18 x 12cm Mounted Size: 30 x 24cm
Price mounted: A$60 (Plus $A10 postage and handling)

I've just finished this small painting of some poppies from a photo I took a few months back. Its rather nice to work on something colourful when the vines and fields are looking so wintery.

A Painting a Week - No.1

1 December 2008 [SOLD]
Collioure Facades
Acrylic & Ink
Painting Size: 18 x 12cm
Mounted Size: 30 x 24cm
Price mounted: A$60

Collioure is a small fishing port on the Mediterrean coast near the Spanish border. In the early 20th century it was a favourite haunt of the Fauvists; Matisse, Dufy, Dupain etc. Many of the houses along the pretty, narrow streets are painted in vivid colours, recognising their Fauvist style of painting.