A Painting A Week No 128 - A Little Lavender, Provence

For Sale - 7th August 2013 
A Little Lavender, Provence
Size: 21 x 15cm
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Summer in France is always brimming with beautiful flowers, one of the most exceptional being the lavender. Huge swathes of it turn the countryside into patches of purple and its always interesting to see what's grown alongside, or sometimes, what pops up wildly in the middle of it. I took this photo near Gordes one summer. It was just a small field, but I liked the combination with the pink shrub, which I believe is the Ile de France Butterfly Bush, or Buddleia.

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A Painting a Week - No 64

For Sale - 8th December 2010
St Tropez
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$90
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St Tropez was chaotic when we visited recently. We'd arrived in the middle one of their biggest annual Sailing Regattas, Les Voiles de St Tropez.  The harbour was crammed with giant yatchts and cruisers and you could barely see the other side of the harbour, the rows of coloured houses being towered over by masts. The bay itself was a picture of movement under sail - a lovely time to visit albeit rather frantic. We took a break from the harbour and spent time wandering around the lovely quiet laneways eating ice-creams!
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A Painting a Week - No 53

For Sale - 9th August 2010
Luberon Lavender
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$90
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Summer in France and its lavender time. I stumbled across this field with its slightly crumbling, but still functioning buildings, somewhere around the back of the hilltop town of Gordes.

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A Painting a Week - No 51

For Sale - 28th June 2010  [SOLD]
Cafe de France, L'Isle sur-la-Sourge
Size: 15 x 21cm
Price A$90
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Yet another cafe scene, this time from L’Isle sur-la-Sorgue in the Luberon department of Provence. The colours are rather different from my usual palette and I must admit rather a challenge! I remember walking past this cafe each time I’ve visited the town, and have always been attracted to the greens and yellows, so thought it was high time to see what I could do with my interpretation of it!

L'Isle sur-la-Sorge is known as the 'Venice of Provence' and is a maze of small streets amongst canals and waterwheels. Although we lived a couple of hours drive away when we were living in the Languedoc, L'Isle sur-la-Sourge seemed to be a place we always found ourselves in, either visiting friends staying there or in nearby villages or stopping off for meals when exploring the nearby countryside.

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A Painting a Week - No 42

For Sale - 6th April 2010 [SOLD]
Avignon Winter Rooftops
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$90
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Finally, a French winter scene as promised! Its now officially spring here, but as yet very little evidence has appeared in the fields.

I took this photo in Avignon just before we left for Sydney at the end of January. It was a lovely surprise to discover as we arrived there that it had just finished snowing. Needless to say, my camera was busy!

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A Painting a Week - No 36

For Sale - 2nd December 2009  [SOLD]
Village de Lacoste, Provence
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$80
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Lacoste is another lovely village perché in the Luberon region, which we stumbled on after leaving Bonnieux (Painting No. 34). The ruined castle of the Marquis de Sade at the top of the village, is now owned by Pierre Cardin!

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A Painting a Week - No 34

For Sale - 16th November 2009   [SOLD]
Bonnieux, Provence
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$80
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Bonnieux is a lovely hillside village perched on the side of the Luberon mountains in Provence - Peter Mayle country!

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A Painting a Week - No 33

For Sale - 9th November 2009 [SOLD]
Les Tournesols
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$80
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Aaah sunflowers, the French name tournesol translating as 'turning to the sun', which of course they do. I usually find if I see a big field of sunflowers, they're turning in the opposite direction to me, and I have to pick my time of the day to return and photograph them!

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A Painting a Week - No 32

For Sale - 2nd November 2009
Arles Rooftops
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$80
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Arles is fascinating enough from the ground with all its tiny narrow streets and colourful facades, but when looking down on the miriade of rooftops, its enough to make one dizzy! I've painted various versions of this wonderful Roman city's rooftops and I'm sure there'll be more to come!

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A Painting a Week - No 31

For Sale - 26th October 2009 [SOLD]
Fontaine de Vaucluse, Provence
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$80
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As soon as I stepped out of the car here, I was stunned by the colour of the water. I believe it changes throughout the seasons, but I clearly recall the vivid emerald greens and deep blues of the river running through and alongside the village. The village of Fontaine de Vaucluse, in the Luberon, is tiny and squeezed in against towering cliffs. It takes its name from the beautiful and mysterious spring feeding the river Sorgue. This spring, at the far end of the village, comes from deep underground and nobody knows how deep...!

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A Painting a Week - No 29

For Sale - 4th October 2009 [SOLD]

Le Café la Nuit, Arles

Acrylic & Ink Painting

Size: 21 x 15cm

Price A$80 (Plus A$10 postage and handling)

This cafe is in the beautiful Roman city of Arles, and was made famous by Vincent van Gogh in his painting Le Cafe de Nuit (The Night Cafe). What better place to have a grande creme and ponder the important things in life!

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A Painting a Week - No 22

For Sale - 17th August 2009 [SOLD]
Abbaye de Sénanque amidst the Lavender, Provence
Acrylic & Ink Painting
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$80
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Summer in France is a special event, especially when in lavender country. This beautiful medieval abbey, located in a wild valley just north of Gordes, is one of the special places to see Provence's famed lavender fields. One step out of the car and the perfume will be with you for days! The abbey was founded in 1148 and went through centuries of ups and downs, but once again today, is populated by Cistercian monks.

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A Painting A Week - No.17

For Sale - 4th June 2009 [SOLD]
St Paul de Vence, Provence
Acrylic & Ink Painting
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$80
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Here we are back in Greece once again. Creatively though, I’ve put the brakes on and stayed in France as I wanted paint some of the small hilltop villages in Provence. St Paul de Vence is a medieval fortified village in the Gorges de Loup, up in the hills north of Cannes. The area is a mecca for artists with lots of interesting galleries tucked away in the narrow streets.

We had a great drive through Provence and spent two nights there to recover from packing up the house yet again. We then drove into Italy for two nights in Moneglia, where we finally managed to hop on a local train and spend some time in Cinque Terra – visited 3 of the 5 villages – totally amazing – paintings will follow! After the drive across Italy, we had a very long delayed ferry trip having stopped in the middle of the night to offload a seriously ill truck driver (we suspect probably deceased!), and then a diversion to Brindisi in southern Italy (we sailed from Ancona further up north) where we had to await Italian police clearance before we could leave.... In fact, we were still in Italy 5 hours after we were supposed to be in Greece...... aaah the joys of travel!

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A Painting A Week - No.5

15th December 2008 [SOLD]
Menton Eglise
Acrylic & Ink Sketch
Size: 12 x 18cm Mounted Size: 24 x 30cm
Price mounted: A$60 (Plus $A10 postage and handling)

This is a sketch of my favourite skyline of the old town of Menton in Provence, next to the Italian border. I'm presently working on a large canvas of this, so although I did this sketch after our visit there a little while ago, it's very fresh in my mind! The colours of the buildings in Menton are typical of the reds, pinks and oranges which seem to have spilled over from Italy.