A bit farther down the coastline, to the east of Marseille, is a town called la Ciotat, known for its many beaches. I’d heard over and over from locals that I ought to go there to paint, so one day I went to this spot that had been pointed out to me and sat in the shade and made this painting. The rocks here are different than other beaches I’d been to, large reddish rocks, and the way that the water turns a bit greener when close to the shore made for a nice complementary color moment in the painting.

This painting is part of Summer in le Sud (“luh sood”, a French word meaning “the south of France”), a series of paintings and watercolors made en plein air (outside, from life) as an artist-in-residence with the Leo Marchutz School.

Original oil painting on canvas. Painting size 14”x22”; overall size framed is approx 15”x23”. This is a diptych of two 11”x14” canvases framed together as one; they were painted together as if one canvas and are meant to stay together, not separated. This painting comes framed in a natural oak floating frame and is ready to hang.

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Merci for choosing to have a piece of my summertime on your walls!

xo Clare