Le Tholonet is a town outside of Aix-en-Provence by about 20 minutes; one might call it an Aixoise suburb. 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. For this painting, the last of the ones I made this summer in the fields (but not the last ones ever!), I sat right in the middle of the rows to paint and felt like I was a lavender flower myself.

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. This painting comes professionally framed with UV-protective glass in a lovely pale green lacquer which happens to rather perfectly match the greens in the painting (the photo doesn’t do it justice, trust me… but also I can take more photos of the piece with the frame if you’d like to see!). The overall size when framed is approx 15”x19”.

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

xo Clare