A Painting a Week - No 31

For Sale - 26th October 2009 [SOLD]
Fontaine de Vaucluse, Provence
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$80
(Plus A$10 postage and handling)

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 30

For Sale - 19th October 2009 [SOLD]

Autumn in Les Tuileries, Paris
Acrylic & Ink Painting

Size: 21 x 15cm

Price A$80

(Plus A$10 postage and handling)

Le jardin des Tuileries is Paris's most central garden. From the 12th century, this area was occupied by roof-tile factories (tuileries meaning tiles) that were surrounded by pumpkin fields and in the 1500s a palace was built on the site and surrounded with extensive Florentine-inspired gardens. Its a truly beautiful park in all seasons - vivid with flowers and new growth in spring; leafy and cool in summer; brilliant with golden and rust colours (and crunching leaves) in autum; stark and elegant with rows of bare trees in the winter, especially stunning with a layer of snow! It offers a haven from the hectic Paris traffic in the surround streets.

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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 28

For Sale - 28th September 2009 [SOLD]
Tourettes sur Loup, Provence
Acrylic & Ink Painting
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$80
(Plus A$10 postage and handling)

Back to French villages again this week. Tourettes is a lovely medieval village, about 15 kms inland between Cannes and Nice. It's perched on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Loup Valley, and like St Paul de Vence, a haven for artists. Its also known as The Violet Village, and this shy little flower is honored each year in March with a flower festival, decorated floats and a flower battle!

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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 26

For Sale - 14th September 2009 [SOLD]

A Glimpse of Paris
Acrylic & Ink Painting
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$80
(Plus A$10 postage and handling)

If you've visited Paris, I'm sure it's left some lasting images in your memory. One of these images for me has always been the beautiful and unique buildings alongside the Seine; hence this painting.

I'm looking forward to spending a little time more there in February on our way back to Sydney.

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The Vendage is upon us again

Its easy to take for granted the continuous hum of the harvesters amongst the vines, the little tractors towing their trailer load of grapes along the long tree-lined roads, followed by a gaggle of slow vehicles all waiting their turn to pass. Its not so easy though to ignore the loud crashing and banging of the neighbours' tractors and their empty trailers passing the window at 6am! But these are the sounds of the vendage - the annual grape picking season in the Languedoc. This year the weather has been beautiful; brilliant sunny days with no threat of rain to interfere with the picking. When I woke this morning the first scent that passed my nostrils was the aroma of wine - fermenting grapes wafting around in the breeze, no doubt from the nearby Cooperative.

When driving behind a tractor and trailer last Sunday, we watching it squeeze along a narrow street, and saw the gutter flowing with red grape juice as the trailer tilted. There are clumps of dark red grapes dropped at intersections and roundabouts where the roads are sticky with grape juice. The whole process is impossible to ignore ..... such is the bliss of living in the Languedoc, and we haven't even started to sample the finished product yet!