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Waving in the Breeze

As the weather gets hotter, these wonderful plants start flowering everywhere in Greece. They thrive in the hot dry summers, and there are swathes of them everywhere along the sides of the roads and up in the hills. They sway majestically in the wind and are often adorned with an insect of some sort sitting right in the middle of the huge flower!  I know them as Queen Anne’s Lace but I believe they’re also known as ‘Wild Carrot’.

Details of this painting can be found in Gallery – Greece.

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Art Weekly 176 – Spring’s Welcome – SOLD


13th June 2017 – SOLD

I love painting irises – the shape and colours are always so random. Masses of stalks and leaves all heading skywards, and leaning and crossing over each other, and the flowers with their various shades of purples and blues, (unless of course, they’re yellow or cream!)  I’ve named this painting ‘Spring’s Welcome’ because whenever I used to travel to France in the springtime, these cheerful irises seemed to be the first of the spring flowers to greet me, often growing wild along the deep ditches in the countryside.

If you would like to buy this painting, please click on this link to my Art Weekly Online Shop, or if you’d rather deal with me direct, please email me at jackie@jackiesherwood.com.

Spring’s Welcome
Price: AUD$ 90.00
Size: 15 x 21cm
(Postage and handling included)

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Art Weekly No 156 – Roses at the Chateau 2

AW-156_Roses-at-the-Chateau11th May 2015 –

A few years ago my Art Weekly No 70 was a painting of dusky pink roses leaning against the gates of a chateau in the Charente area of France. These brilliant red roses were growing abundantly against another wall of that same chateau, and I’ve been intending to paint them for some time.

The photo brings back lovely memories of driving through France, from the Lot up to Normandy, in early summer. I had booked myself into this small chateau, and when I arrived all I could see was a large doorbell with ‘sonnez svp’ on it, so I did (push, that is).  After some time a slightly disheveled man appeared, who said that Madam was somewhere in the chateau gardens, and could I go and find her, and she would check me in!  It was on my wander around the gardens to locate Madam that I found myself in the different areas with so many beautiful flowers. I did eventually find Madam, who wasn’t after all sitting in the sunshine sipping her pastis and reading a book. She was equally as disheveled as Monsieur, and knee deep amongst the weeds in her wellies!  I had a wonderful relaxing night’s stay in a massive room, and an excellent breakfast!

If you would like to buy this painting, please click on this link to my Art Weekly Online Shop, or if you’d rather deal with me direct, please email me at jackie@jackiesherwood.com.

Roses at the Chateau 2
Price: AUD$ 90.00
Size: 21 x 15cm
(Postage and handling included)

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A Painting A Week No 128 – A Little Lavender, Provence

AW-128-ALittleLavender-Prov

For Sale – 7th August 2013 – 

Summer in France is always brimming with beautiful flowers, one of the most exceptional being the lavender. Huge swathes of it turn the countryside into patches of purple and its always interesting to see what’s grown alongside, or sometimes, what pops up wildly in the middle of it. I took this photo near Gordes one summer. It was just a small field, but I liked the combination with the pink shrub, which I believe is the Ile de France Butterfly Bush, or Buddleia.

If you would like to buy this painting, please click on this link to my  Art Weekly Online Shop, or if you’d rather deal with me direct, please email me at jackie@jackiesherwood.com.

A Little Lavender, Provence
Price: AUD$90.00
Size: 21 x 15cm
(Postage and handling included)

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Poppies at the Chateau

Poppies-at-the-Chateau

Details of this painting can be found in Gallery – French Life.

I photographed these poppies whilst staying at Chateau Mouillepied in the Charente area of France way back in 2005. Although it was a rather modest chateau, they had the most beautiful gardens, and when I arrived I had to seek out Monsieur who was merrily digging away amongst the bushes. I knew one day I’d finally get around to painting these poppies.