"Painting outdoors in Provence can be fraught. The overwhelming beauty of the light and the motifs, as well as a general cultural nostalgia for the Mont Sainte Victoire, for poppy or lavender fields, can lead to very conventional painting, which finds more power in what the painting is of than in how it is painted. However, there is a particular calming joy that can result in painting an iconic mountain, a beautiful stone cottage, a deep blue violet grey lavender field, and having the smell of the lavender saturate the atmosphere, and if you can harness an expression of that particular happiness, that moment of contented joy, in such a way that it doesn’t rely on sentimental tropes, then you can arrive at something really moving in a very human way.”

- O’Neill Cushman

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O’Neill Cushman oil painting en plain air Mont Sainte Victoire and Lavender Field series in Aix en Provence Marchutz School artist

O’Neill Cushman oil painting en plain air Mont Sainte Victoire and Lavender Field series in Aix en Provence Marchutz School artist

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