Here's what I was painting in early November here in the south of France.
These are the vines of Faugères, called by some the most interesting wine region in the world at present. I certainly have enjoyed tasting the rapid improvement of these wines since the 1980's!

It's a wonderful landscape to paint and walk in and still unspoiled.

At the beginning of the year I went to Paris again to look at the paintings at the Gare d'Orsay, mind blowing if you like painting. Some say that painting's dead, nonsense of course. A well known critic who came to see me this summer said that there was so little good figurative painting now because it hadn't been taught for forty years and now there are few who know how it's done.

I've had two major commissions this year, one to create seven big panels based on local architecture and landscape here and the other to paint in the hills of Dorset near Beaminster. Thank heaven for enlightened patronage! Thank you Betrand, thank you Fran and Giles.

Come and see me in Faugères next weekend, 3rd and 4th December. I'm showing some 'Bodegones', small paintings for wine cellars.