First light, Provence #85

First Light, Provence, ©John O’Grady, 2012 Oil on Panel, 5″x 7″ Not for Sale This is a reworking of a painting I started in the Autumn but didn’t finish. We have been looking at each other, but not conversing, until a few days...

La Route du Nougat #83

La Route du Nougat, ©John O’Grady, 2012 Oil on Panel, 5″x 7″ In Provence, the custom for the Christmas meal is to have 13 desserts on the table. Sent on a mission to buy one of them, nougat made by a reputed artisan in Sault, a town on a plateau near...

The Golden Tree #80

John O’Grady, oil on Panel, 6″x 6″, 2012 Looking from my terrace, at the end of the day a shaft of winter light has been illuminating this tree for the last month. All the leaves have now gone, but the memory of its glow is still with...