Carla Bayle

My last post from beautiful France, the week has absolutely flown. The town of Carla Bayle is perched high with beautiful views all round. All the houses are painted in wonderful colours. This is part of a lovely house painted in these gorgeous blues.

Yellow Hosepipe! Oil on board

Le Mas d'Azil

A view of this pretty town from the fields above. We were all set up, eyes down concentrating on capturing everything before us. Then a very irate and cross farmer decided we should go.....Now! So we all packed up and went down into the town to a lovely spot by the River. We then had a lovely BBQ in a much cooler spot!

I finished the painting yesterday. 

Le Mas d'Azil. Oil on board. 

River Arize in the town of Rieux

A lovely day in the small town of Rieux with the weather being much kinder to us. Loads of gorgeous reflections from the Old Mill, and the colours reflecting Autumn coming sadly.

We are staying at Manzac en Bas where we are so well looked after including a picnic lunch!,

The old mill River Arize. France. Oil on board

Hello from The Pyrenees

A beautiful place with stunning views of the Mountains in the distance. A little chilly and damp, so painting sunflowers in doors to bring some sunshine in!!

Sunflowers. Oil on board.

Harvest time!!

Yesterday it poured all day, in fact I think Market Harborough was buried in clouds!  Today the sun shone and after a long gap I have managed to get out and find some lovely harvest colours not far away.

The Foot Path.  Oil on board.

Iconic View at Kelmarsh Hall & Gardens!

This is a familiar view of Kelmarsh and the Yew Trees to anyone who has been there.  It is actually called the Double Border, and changes with the seasons.  I painted this a week ago in the rain and the sun, and it has taken me a week to photograph it, as I do it outside and it was raining all the time!!

Double Border, Kelmarsh Hall & Gardens.  Oil on board.

Exhibition Time!!

It is Exhibition time for Roz Bradshaw and I.  We are at the Alfred East Art Gallery in Kettering from next Wednesday 29th July.

We both love painting in oils, so hence the title "Two Views in Oils".  You will be very welcome to come along and enjoy our work!

Lots of Hydrangeas!!

I started this painting on the Patio, then I was driven indoors by the weather. Eventually finishing it off back where I started! I am rather fond of these lovely flowers, and can not resist when I find a particularly gorgeous one.  The very pale pink one is a variety I just happened to come across recently at a local garden centre.  It is called Charme and all the petals have a very fine pink outline to them.

Lots of Hydrangeas!  Oil on board.

Frisby Grange Farm, Gaulby

It seems a very long time since I managed to get out and do some painting!! As part of Leicester Sketch Club we went to Frisby Grange Farm and had a lovely time wandering around.  Eventually we got down to some work with our pencils, paints, pastels and brushes!! Then the sun came out!  Our host Daisy Fawcett really spoilt us by cooking up a cream tea.  Every one agreed it felt like we were on holiday!

Frisby Grange Farm.  Oil on board

SWEET PEAS

I had forgotten this little painting I did at a workshop a couple of weeks ago.  I decided that sweet peas are not the easiest flowers to paint!!  The painting was done on a six inch square gesso board with a lovely smooth surface. Great to paint on!

Sweet Peas.  Oil on board.

KELMARSH HALL & GARDENS

A great day painting by the Lake in the gardens at Kelmarsh. It was good to have some lovely sun to add to the reflections in the water.  There were some pretty yellow iris on the far bank.

The Lake at Kelmarsh.  oil on board

Cromford Mill - Derbyshire

Another lovely spot to paint! We left in pouring rain and howling wind in the morning, and by the time we set up the sun shone on our efforts to capture the scene.

Cromford Mill. oil on board.