The French Countryside

Westward from the Italian town of Ventimiglia, with its fortified walled enclosed clusters of tall houses perched above the Mediteranean Sea, you enter Provence France. Throughout the mountain villages and towns in this part of the French countryside, are narrow streets and weather-beaten tiled rooftops. The red and Yellow ochre sandstone quarries near Roussillon and Gordes provide brillient images of sun-baked houses, one on top of the other on the steep slopes of the hilly countryside. Each village and town has its own walled citadel built centuries ago usually at the highest point of its city limits. It is this theme that Darvie has presented in his paintings.

Village of Gordes

pastel on paper

Mountain Top Village of Gordes

oil on canvas

Honfleur Harbor

oil on canvas

Sunset in Peille

pastel

24" x 18"

Sunset on Peille Rooftops

pastel on paper

24" x 18"

Alleyway in Peille

Pastel on paper

24" x 18"

Chapel in Peillon

paste on paper

24" x 20"

Red Ochre Houses in Roussillon

pastel on paper

24" x 20"

Sunset on Roussillon Rooftops

pastel on paper

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