Back in the Studio - finally!

Provence Farm

10" x 10" acrylic on canvas

$85.

It has been a busy fall and there has not been a lot of time for painting. I finally got down to business this past week and started a large landscape, which I am ruminating on - and did some smaller works too. This is the first of the latter - a quintessential provencal scene with a garden row of lavender, olive trees and red-roofed buildings - all bathed in glorious sunlight. I can almost hear the cicadas!

Chateau de Bourgane Gardens

Chateau de Bourgane Gardens  SOLD
16" x 16" - acrylic on canvas

This small chateau was near where I stayed at Les Bassacs in Provence. The formal gardens and grounds are open to the public on weekends - so that's where we went one rainy Sunday afternoon, last month. I took lots of photographs and this is the first painting from that series. I loved the sculptural quality of the boxwood hedges. Hopefully I didn't get too carried away with colour - well - maybe a bit.

Painting Joucas

Joucas Village
14" x 18" - acrylic on canvas

Joucas is one of those tiny perfect perched villages in Provence – and we painted there one overcast morning in July. Most of my painting colleagues painted the landscape view from the village – I chose the view looking up at the village from the road below. The biggest challenge were the grape vines – they appeared as a wall of green in front of me – but I was pleased with the way they turned out and I particularly like the trunks – they remind me of Van Gogh.