Garlic
Busy day today in London buying bridesmaid dress for Floss. Move over Pippa! So, no painting but here’s a biggie I made earlier. Sold at Childwickbury.
Sold
Cosmos and toothpaste pot
At least that’s what I understand this pot to be. If anyone knows better, please let me know. The cosmos, what little I have are still going strong but I’m running out of time! London tomorrow to purchase a bridesmaids dress. Not for me you understand.
8″x8″ oil on gessoboard
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Cosmos purity
Time is slipping away fast and we’ll soon be heading back to Pakistan so I’m painting like a woman possessed. It’s busy in the house with plumbers, offspring and grandma and grandad visiting but I’m slipping away to the studio nonetheless.
8″x8″ oil on gessoboard-SOLD
Stooks
Happy day. I was worried that once again this year I would miss the window of opportunity to paint the stooks in our village. Usually, I find them just as they’re being loaded onto the trailer! However, this time I had warning so started early this morning and managed two sketches to be tweeted in the studio.
Morning stooks
Break in the clouds
Nasturtiums
Some days, I just don’t know what to write about and today is such a day so here are
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Strawberries
I forgot to blog this one, it sold at Childwickbury,which reminds me…….. The prize draw I ran there has been won by Catherine.ibbott so if you’d like to email me your address, I will pop the painting in the post to you – congratulations. Right, I’ve been in the studio all morning, the sun is shining and I’m off out to paint wheat fields.
8″x8″ oil on gessoboard-SOLD
Cosmos stem
I didn’t get to post yesterday and today it’s delivering paintings so here’s a quickie. I haven’t forgotten the prize draw, just getting round to that too!
8″x5″ oil on gessoboard
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Strawberries and spotty jar
It was a long, long, long, long drive home from Provence at the weekend with some spectacular storms over Dover when we got Ukside but boy, was it worth it. Bonnieux, where we stayed, has to be the prettiest village on earth and I just wish I’d had more time to paint. Here’s a still life in case you’re fed up with French landscapes but be warned, there are more.
8″x8″ oil on gessoboard-SOLD
Mas below Lacoste
The day before yesterday, whilst jobbers and flora were playing cards, I took myself off and found this small mas nestled behind some vines with the hilltop village of Lacoste in the background. I stood there happily for a couple of hours and my only companions were a couple of little dogs who were taking themselves for a Walk up the lane. Later, a lovely family from Dunkerque stopped to chat. I absolutely love painting here! I realise I am in the realm of the master of painting all things Provençal, Julian Merrow Smith. In fact, I’m here because I couldn’t get on his workshop, it was full. Do look at his work, it’s fantastic and he, among others, have inspired me to paint en plein air. Excuse the shadow on the right hand corner.
8″x8″ oil on gessoboard
Painting in provence
L’abbeye de Senanque
I’ve found the adaptor! Thank you for all your birthday wishes. Brilliant day so far – up at six to get to l’abbeye in time for the sun to appear over the hill and ripple through the lavender. Just me, jobbers and a few hardcore photographers. I guess the monks were at prayer. Anyway, fantastic place and one crossed off my bucket list. Back to brunch of fruit and pastries arranged by my lovely Floss. Off to a lake now where they plan to swim and guess what….I’ll probably paint. Loving this light and totally get why so many artists did and do move here.
Yet to be finished
Lavender in the morning
Breakfast on our return