Devon valley
A busy afternoon painting the beautiful Devon Valley, Stellenbosch where I made a new friend! The evening spent sampling local produce. Well, it would be churlish not to.
Passersby in Stellenbosch
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Norfolk Broads
Packed up again, paintings framed and left for exhibition. Just leaving Norfolk “a Brush with the Broads” great fun. Mad dash to Gatwick for flight to Venice with Haidee-Jo Summers for more plein-air painting and perhaps a little George-spotting if he’s still there! Have a great week, I certainly will!
Horsey windpump
Nickeling staithe
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