This is my memory of a lovely town in the south of France called Bormes-Les-Mimosas I visited a while ago. It’s famous for the yellow mimosa flowers that grow in abundance in and around this beautiful town. While walking along the small cobbled streets I came across a light blue door with a wonderful arrangement of flowers along the side of it. This is such a typical Mediterranean scene that I had to commit it to canvas.

There were two types of shadow playing on the wall and door at that time of day. One long light shadow going diagonally and a deeper one from direct sun at the top. Mix this in with the rough peach wall and the small magenta flowers and I feel the warm sun again. The flowers were made using my screwdriver and the lines in the door with my son’s school ruler. I normally add three birds to my landscape paintings but with the lack of sky I has to choose another strategy. Now the birds are three cracks on the wall. Can you see them?