#42 / L’Isle Sur la Sorgue
This is a painting of one of
the water wheels that are so famous in L’Isle Sur la Sorgue. It is the smallest
of the paintings I have done in this series of ‘daily’ paintings. I’m using the
same sized flat square-edged brushes I was using before, so each stroke appears
larger than in previous paintings and allows me a little more freedom to roam into
slightly more abstract realms.
Each year there is an
enormous Antiques fair here where eager tourists clamor to buy over-priced
junk. Once we saw Richard E Grant walking through the melee. I’m certain he won’t
have been seduced by the frankly criminal stall holders, as I believe he is a
regular visitor to the South of France. One example of their nefarious activities
we witnessed a couple of years ago was after we got a free ‘retro’ pastis glass
when we bought a bottle of ‘51’ from the supermarket. We saw the same free
retro pastis glass being sold by one of these crooks for €16! Just enough to
buy the villain another bottle of pastis!
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