At Dusk

This painting was painted 'en plein air' at the foothills of the beautiful quaint village of Simiane La Rotonde on one of my most memorable painting trip to France. Simiane-la-Rotonde, a medieval village, clinging to a small hill on a high plateau in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France has remained practically unchanged for centuries and in June and July, which was when this was painted, the surrounding fields explode in a profusion of lavender.