Poets, painters and puddings. These three things make the world as it ought to be.

Buddha, Buddha, Buddha 1,2 & 3

Buddha 1

 Buddha 3

 
 

Many more Buddhas on the way and they are all for sale, I need how to work out Paypal, but they are for sale for 150$ each or 100 Euros each.
 

Cat and Mouse in the House

My cat, old though she is, has found a new lease of life since Barney Cat left, and this morning, she delivered a pretty little mouse, quite alive and unscathed into my bedroom. The mouse is quivering in a dark little corner where I cannot find her, and the cat, content with her no kill capture, has curled up in the linen cupboard and is sound asleep. Oh dear!

Just a start, I had a look at the mimosa yesterday and decided to give it a miss, it is so bright and so yellow, without cutting it and turning it into a still life I don't think I am up to it.

This morning I am avoiding doing my accounts, but as all the tax returns have arrived, I have no choice. Oh dear!

 A demain

Blossom a bit of it

I love blossom, this year it is late,and as soon as it appears the wind is blowing it away. so I feel quite lucky to catch any at all.

I am having trouble trying to put more than one picture on this site!

Golden Days

 

It is raining today and the wind has blown most of the leaves from the vines, still I painted this picture a couple of days ago in glorious sunshine as the leaves bathed in a golden light.
 

Turbulence and Autumn vines

Our neighbours house in the distance provencale and pretty through the glow of the vines. They are quite extra ordinary this year, the wind hasn't blown the leaves away and the rain that fell early October created colours rarely seen, and what with the sky filled with angels at sunset I am in love with life.

I have not written recently, I havn't known what to write, life has been filled with turbulance and upset, dear friends have been ill, and I have not been mentally or emotionally available to write anything of any consequence, or that I think would be of interest.

I have been painting in the calm of the storm, most everyday in the vinyards and peace is filling my soul. Words are scarce but beauty is a plenty I shall share it with you bit by bit.

Fallen Angels

 I have no idea what I am doing. but I am having a go.  I have joined something on typepad called six apart, but I don't really understand what it does or how to use it. Never mind. But back to basics. I want to Aix on tuesday, a friend of mine Alan Roberts, whose webisite I will put on my links, is a teacher and one of the directors of the school, I have been wanting somewhere to paint with a group of people and asked Alan casually about it , and he enthusiastically said I could join in on a tuesday, he said it waould be great to have some one there more his age. Tee hee, the students are all aobut 20, and we are over 50. I haven't painted a portrait for over 32 years, so I was very happy with the result, although the proportions were seriously distorted and the girls chin was sorely lacking, she did in fact have a good chin, and in my painting became a chinless wonder. Anyway joy of joys, I had a great time and headed the car int he direction of Mount Saint Victoire.

What a glorious day, I walked up with my avocado and rice cake picnic, and was filled with the glory of it all, and I lost my appetite.

Chateau Sainte Beatrice

Oh goodness. I have been trying all morning to make my pages more commercial. I want to add amazon, I would like more people to read my pages and I am in deadlock with all of it, I just don't understand any of it. I am a blooging dunce.

Anyway this is a painting I did yesterday afternoon sitting on a rock in the bright miday sun.

If you want to buy it just let me know.

As Young Lovers do

I was going to call this one transparent sunshine, but everytime I look at it I think of the Van Morrison song "As young lovers do" and as I look at these vines embracing in the fading sun I can only think that they are lovers.

Just a few more days before the exhibition and my mind has started to leap about everywhere, I need to keep focused but I am finding it hard.

Tranquility at sunset

                        

The colours are too beautiful to resist, I would like to paint at least 12 vinyard paintings before this weekend, but I will be lucky if I find the time to paint more than four. The colours reach deep into soul and help me rejoice in my life. This evening I sat on the path and painted these vines, the chickens came first and pecked about, bored of watching the paint brush they left, then came my cat delighted to find me sitting down, she helped by lying down on my lap purring loudly and swishing her tail in such a fashion that I had to stop painting for a while. Bored she also left, and I was left with a fealing of pure contentment. I have added a few more of my watercolours to my painters site

                                                                                                 

A quirky Painting of a quirky house

We rent the downstairs appartment to holiday makers from all around the world in the summer, and we had a lovely Canadian family who fell in love with our house and our hens and commisioned me to paint this painting for the, so sadly it won't be in the exhibition but I hope you like it. To look at more of my watercolours please go either to my watercolour page or you can go to my website which mainly concentrates on my oil paintings.

The colour on the vines are turning, glorious reds and greens and golds and yellow the recent rainfall is making this autumn one of those very splendid affairs that leave one in awe of nature and her magic.