Original artwork description:

A Provençal landscape, the road to Valensole, on a plain in southern France, famous for its sweeping lavender fields and golden sunlight.
Oil on stretched canvas 41x33 cm.
With this title, you can smell the breeze scented with lavender. It evokes a sense of calm and nostalgia, maybe even the hum of bees or the distant cigales that soundtrack a Provençal summer. It captures the atmospheric transient light and highlights the golden Provençal sunlight bathing the lavender fields, evoking both time of day and mood. I have used an expressive colour palette with vibrant, saturated purples and yellows, giving a more expressive image than the strictly naturalistic. I have chosen not to focus on the purple of the lavender, but rather to let the viewer assimilate them from the pink fields and the blue mountains The texture of the brushstrokes is part of the visual experience, suggesting movement and life. There is an element of poetic realism, while rooted in a real landscape, the painting filters reality through a lyrical lens, giving the feeling of a memory rather than a photograph. I feel that it’s a style that doesn’t shout, but hums gently in the background, like the bees among the lavender.

Materials used:

oil paint

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