L'Isle sur la Sorgue

reflections in the sorgues (oil on wood 23cm x 23cm) David Atkinson

Reflections (like shadows) have an elusive and abstracted quality to them that helps me to forget what I am painting...

Rustrel

Rustrel (oil on wood 23cm x 23cm) David Atkinson

Another very quick painting done in situ. In composing this image, I was thinking about grids - the way that the planes interlock, the walls, windows and shutters, are almost all rectangles that can relate to a grid (I hesitate to invoke Mondrian, but I will anyway).  In my mind, abstraction and figuration are never far apart.

Bonnieux

Bonnieux (oil on wood, 23cm x 23cm) David Atkinson

Summer is slowly coming back, so I am out making small paintings on the spot.  This narrow street in Bonnieux felt like a canyon, with deep shadows and bright sunlight catching the edges of buildings.