Arts in Provence

ARTS IN PROVENCE
Welcome to the Arts in Provence Blog. This is a blog about life in Les Bassacs, a small hamlet in the South of France, where we organise summer painting courses. You can find out about the courses by going to our website.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

The last of the Americans

Yesterday, we said au revoir to our last group of American painters for this year.  We celebrated the 4th of July with them with a barbecue buffet on the terrace.  As the sun went down the group sang the star-spangled banner and we surprised them with a patriotic trifle in honour of the land of the free!



John, Trish, Tiffany and non-painting Ben who cycled to the top of Mont Ventoux instead!


Some of the work from Maggie Siner's oil painting week









Susan Abbott's Watercolour group

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

What a difference a day makes

We have a group of American watercolourists here for two weeks.  We have had exceptionally hot weather with the temperatures drifting into the high 30's.  Then on 1st July we woke up to a chute in the temperature down to 15 C and drizzle.  The 3rd of July, the summer returned.


from one extreme to the other