Awaiting the Ebb - €2200.00 - Just after dawn, a fine schooner waits for the tide to ebb, to take her in light airs down river to the sea.
Le Bergerie de Isnard, Saint Barnabie - €1650.00 - This classic Provençal Bergerie set in a dry evocative landscape of rhythm and movement. Sited on a slope because headroom isn’t needed but a big sloping roof to collect the rain is! Which is channelled to the adjacent cistern. Size : 29 X 42 cms. Mounted and Framed
Morning Mist , Winter - €1900.00 - Winter morning on the cote d’Azur ,mist hangs in the valleys often accompanied by hoar frosts . Size : 31 X 67 cms. Mounted and framed .
Fare well old friend. Size 31 X 54 cm. Unframed.
This painting is an expression of loss at the passing of an old friend . Painted in acrylic on velum and wood . Size 70 X 40 cm. Framed.
A girl cools down in the stream, the river Cagnes. Painted in acrylics on vellum mounted on wood. 49 X 38 cm. Framed.
The old village of Tourrettes in a morning light. Painted in acrylic on vellum mounted on wood. 36 X 51 cm. Framed.
This subject came from watching a father and son playing on the shore of the lake Sainte Croix. About a dialogue , father to son , son to toy sail boat. 31 X 64 cms Mounted and framed
The Ancient Wells of Provence. Les Ancient Puits de Provence €1500.00 Often with surprisingly ellaborate archetecture of Islamic or Christian origins which seem to belay the importance that the source held for the ancient peoples who farmed this dry land . Size : 50 X 35 cms (apx) SOLD
The Valley of Caille - €1900.00 - A painting about the evocative landscape of the Caille valley and it's strange perspective. Size: 35 X 60cm Mounted and framed.
Autumn Sumac - €900.00 - Sumac in autumn colours and a Tourrettes landscape. Size 24 X 34 cms. (apx) Masked and framed Sold.
Saint Paul de Vence - €1700.00 - The ramparts and village perched above the 'Vallon du Malvent '. Size : 60 C 45 cms apx. SOLD
A Place where I was lost - €1700.00 - A painting that grew from some old drawings and references at a time when I was a bit blue. Makeing a picture about my low spirits helped me shedd the blues . Size :49 X 30 cms Unframed.
Vasudeva's departure - Siddartha - €1800.00 - At the close of this magical tale by Hermann Hesse, when Siddartha becomes the ferryman taking the place of Vasudeva who in turn takes his leave to begin the final voyage . Size 25 X 64 cms. Unframed.
Gassin villiage with her vines. €1200.00 The sea breese that blows over the peninsular is supposed to bring a quality to the wines of the Saint Tropez region and none more than the vinyards of Gassin seen here with a humid winter light. Size 43 X 26 cms. Mounted and framed.
Traces of an old road through the pines near Vidauban - €1390.00 - These evocative trees growing out of the bare red sandstone cast seemingly violet shaddows. I find that I'm looking at traces of an old highway chipped out of the rock. 34 cm x 49cm, Framed and Mounted.
50 Years after Armageddon - €2000.00 - A small group of Tourrettans with coma sized hangovers, were deep underground when disaster hit the earth annihilating the population. When they resurfaced, they were alone with all forms of infrastructure destroyed. Natural inventiveness and a modest understanding of the different sciences enabled them to create for themselves the basic necessities, gas, electricity, power etc. This picture shows Tourrettes 50 years later with various devices created to provide for the community. Size :60 X 45 cms. Sold.
Reflctions 2 - €2350.00 - From my brief ;- To create an atmosphere of quiet dawn on the water , an isolated place, still, quiet , only a light land breeze ruffles the surface in places to smudge the reflections. The only movement is the little pointu fishing boats moving out to sea. The only human presence the fishermen working them . The last boat disappears round the cap leaving only the sound of a distant cigalle in the pines. A new day begins . Size : 75 X 33 cms. Mounted and framed .
Girl and her pilot cutter - €2100.00 - A play on contrasts and elements . Mounted and framed . Size : 39 X 54 cms
Somewhere along the road - €1900.00 - The subject is le Baou Rousse and the road toward Logis du Pins from Thorenc . In my work the road often symbolises ' Life ' . The moment my subject came into view, surrounded by such majestic landscape , I knew that it was a stretch of road that had to be explored . Size: 36 X 54 cms. Mounted and Framed .
The Baou de Sainte Jennet from the hills behind Vence . €800.00 This wild magnificant country is onlythree or four kilometers as the crow flies from the dormatory conurbanations below . Size 32 X 22 cms Mounted and framed .
The old man and the baby fishes - €2100.00 - The old man slowly spills the content of his pail into the still waters at the edge of some ocean, thousands of baby fishes swim away ; the old acacia tree with depleted foliage now in danger of dying reflects a sentiment, that of an old wise but simple man who in solitude makes his gesture to counter the thoughtless distruction , the way of the high world of industrial fishery . Size 44 X 66 cms. Mounted and framed.
Sunset at the 'pré de Jas Neuf ' pour Souris - €2200.00 - This is an endeavour to capture with colour the light and shadow of this magical place at sunset.It's perched high in the hills above Tourrettes . The bergerie where Souris kept his sheep is just off the pic. to the right, Souris died tragicly on the 11 Novembre , No Tourrettean can pass there without thinking of him . Size :- 65 X 45 cms (apx ) SOLD
REFLECTIONS - €2300.00 - A painting about the movement and quiet of the predawn the rapidly changing light and its reflections on the sea, the bay of Villefranche and,and my reflections on it all . Size : 55 X 40 cms ( apx ) SOLD
Tourrettes Guardian of the Ridge - €2400.00 - Just after dawn , the winter sun low over the sea highlights the ramparts casting ravines of shaddow . Size : 44 X 66 cms. Mounted and Framed.
Wind Clowds - Wind Trees. €800.00 An attempt to catch the attmosphere of the Maure, Var landscape with Mistral light . Size 20 X 38 cms Masked and framed. levitra
Wind Clowds - Wind Trees 2. €1700.00 One of several efforts to evoke the atmosphere of this country , le Plene des maures, Vidauban - Le Cannet des Maures , useing the interplay of the striking similarity between the Lenticular clowds and the pin Parasol . Size : 32 X 51 cms. Unframed .
Gourdon in her coat of many colours. €1400.00 The perched village of Gourdon in autumn light low and augmented by reflections off the sea ,it's mantle of oaks going through their seasonal colour change, has provoked me on numerous occasions and will do again. Size :28 X 53 cms. Mounted and framed.
The place where stags fight. €1430.00 In the high dry hills these flat meddows are the meeting place for the stags in the autumn time of rutting. The fight to establish the new order often ends at the border between these two meadows where there is a difference of height of about one metre. The wiser of the two stags manoeuvers to get the advantage of this height. 28cm x 56cm, Framed and Mounted
End of Winter - Thorenc - €1270.00 - A painting of hope, colours begin to creep into the winter trees and the overcast is broken with a patch of blue sky far to the west , a likley sign of the Mistral coming with it's wild breeses and electric blue skys. 32cm X 52cm, Framed and Mounted.
A nostalgia for times of simplicity of life - €2300.00 - At an old farm in the high country, water is a precious commodity and only taken as needed. The short trip in the evening to draw water can bring a precious moment. Treasured memories of times spent at ' Le Prè de Marthre ' with Edmée and friends . 47 cm x 66 cm Framed and Mounted
Autumn colour show - €1800.00 - The evening light at the end of the year in the Alpes Maritimes goes through golds and pinks before the sun sets. This highlights the autumn colours that are complimentary, oaks and maples with their leaves on the turn. In contrast the greens die back. A season when I'm drawn to play the extremes of my palette. 41cm x 51cm, Framed and Mounted.
The Poet's path. €1575.00 An expression in dialogue of colour about luminosity and this magnificient country sweeping down to the Mediterranean . Size :45 X 30 cms (apx) Masked and framed.
The Citadel at Entreveux - €2145.00 - The engineers of old hung this fortress on an almost vertical spike of rock, - to control all movement through the valley as it passed through a natural chicane. 43cm x 60cm, Framed and Mounted.
Rock garden in the Colle de Vence - €1550.00 - This dry limestone valley where erosion throws up strange forms,and vegitation only exists in faults and crevices created by it. Rythm and harmony are to be found in this dry land where life is a fight for survival against drought, cold and wind. 40cm x 46cm, Framed and Mounted.
Where the North Sea met my dreams - €1550.00 - A painting treated like a poem endeavors to reflect the very personal sentiments using just simple elements in nature. 37cm x 56cm, Framed and Mounted.
