A Painting A Week No 113 - Poppy Fields, Italy 2

For Sale - 23rd October 2012
Poppy Fields, Italy 2
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$90
(Postage and handling included)

We’ve just spent the past week or so, back in Italy again, slowly travelling through towards France with my eldest son, James.  It seems relevant therefore, to have my second recently finished poppy painting this week, although the Italian fields are now all ploughed and bare.  We had a great time exploring the Puglia region and have seen some amazing sights, which will feature in my blog once we get a good internet connection.  From there we spent some time in Positano (where James was testing his memory of his last stay there at the age of 6), and Cinque Terre.... yes, again!  We've now just arrived in Menton, France.

I took the photo for this painting near San Miniato in Tuscany back in May - as you can see from the photo below, its a very serious business photographing poppies!

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A Painting A Week No 108 - Poppy Fields, Tuscany

For Sale - 8th August 2012
Poppy Fields, Tuscany
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$90
(Postage and handling included)

Yes, I suspect I may be a little obsessed with poppies.  There's nothing like driving around a corner and there in front of you, is a field covered in a whole mass of red. It is sometimes tricky to find a field with a good backdrop though, cos supermarkets and motorways in the background, just don't quite work.  This field was along one of the small roads between Pisa and Siena - I've included a photo below, with Rita, which I think highlights just how crazy I/we must look when taking these photos! All for a good cause though.

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A Painting A Week No 104

For Sale - 13th May 2012
French Poppies 4
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$90
(Postage and handling included)

Back in France again for a few days and its poppy time of the year. This trip though we've not really been in the right areas to capture the fields overflowing with them. Travelling through Italy last week was stunning though, with beautiful fields of brilliant red poppies, often interspersed with yellow daisies, but as luck would have it, none quite within camera range. This is a painting I finished just before we left Greece, painted from a photo which I took this time last year in the Languedoc region of France. Hopefully when we head back into Italy soon, the Italian ones will be ready and waiting for me in some more accessible spots.

If you would like to buy this painting, please click on this link to my  Art Weekly Online Shop, or if you'd rather deal with me direct, please email me at either jackiesinfrance@hotmail.com or jackie@jackiesherwood.com.