Evening at Notre-Dame d’Aubune #183

Evening at Notre-Dame d’Aubune, ©John O’Grady, 2014 Oil on Panel, 8″x 10″ Not for Sale (NFS) This is a painting of the beautiful provençal chapel called Notre-Dame d’Aubune situated just outside the town of Beaumes de Venise known for its exquisite muscat...

L’Aube dans la Garrigue #182

L’Aube dans la Garrigue. ©John O’Grady, 2014 Oil on Panel, 6″x 6″ Not For Sale On the plateau of Clansayes in the south of the department of La Drôme, the Mediterranean scrub is dense with small oak trees, boxwood and wild aromatic plants like lavender, thyme...

Clair de Lune #175

Clair de Lune, ©John O’Grady, 2014 Oil on Panel, 6″x 6″ SOLD The moon rose above the sap green trees, silhouetting them against the night sky. On the road between Buisson and Vaison la Romaine, the fields were illuminated and the golden grasses that lined the edge of...

Passing Clouds II, Provence #134

Passing Clouds II, Provence ©John O’Grady, 2013 Acrylic on Panel 5″x 7″ Not For Sale (NFS) A distant treeline, the dark oak trees are solid and motionless as the white clouds of summer slowly drift by. The description of bushes and trees in the painting came about...

Le Cabanon #131

Le Cabanon ©John O’Grady, 2013 Acrylic on Panel 6″x 6″ SOLD In this painting, I set out to capture the character of this ‘cabanon’, a little stone structure covered with roman tiles you can often see standing in the middle of fields here, in northern Provence. This...