Le Tholonet is a town outside of Aix-en-Provence by about 20 minutes; one might call it an Aixoise suburb. The master painter Cezanne himself once lived in le Tholonet and painted many masterpieces there, and it has a lively restaurant next to the pétanque terrains. A little farther past the pétanque are lavender fields, and, lucky me, the gorgeous purple flowers hadn’t been cut yet. I woke early and went to the fields two mornings in a row to paint, catching the fields just before they were harvested. Sitting in the shade and breathing in the lavender fragrance in the early morning with hardly a soul around… it’s a good life.

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 watercolor on paper with straight edges; unframed size 11”x14”.

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

xo Clare