2025 watercolour of The Bay of Cannes from Les Adrets d’Esterel

Hi Everybody

We were only able to be in LesAdrets d’ Esterel for just a week this year but as ever we loved to be back in this very special part of the world for us.
We weren’t able to travel a lot due to my current mobility issues but that gave me the opportunity to paint some watercolours from my extensive library of Provence photos and previous sketch ideas.
So here are the watercolours that I did manage to paint which I hope you will enjoy.
Our house was not too far from Thoule sur Mer, a lovely but very busy town on the wonderful coast road from Cannes to St  Maxime. This road is one the finest coastal roads with great views at every turn.

The beaches and red Esterel rocks at Theoule sur Mer

I am always keen to paint a new version of the wonderful town of Antibes and so here is the  2026 version  in a somewhat different style from my usual but I hope still capturing the colours of this town so popular with both Renoir and Monet well over 100 years ago.

Antibes, a no drawing first very immediate watercolour style.

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Lookng down on to St Tropez.

we flew to Nice for our holiday this year but I always love to think of the Provence hillside farms of previous car journies through the hills and mountains that you pass by.. lavender fields anf nowaday fields covered in wild flowers apper as if by magic as you whizz by.

Lavender and wilds flowers of Provence

Finally as a project I have been painting slightly more carefully produced paintings from the sketches made 

This one was thus painted on our beautiful balcony which looked over the Bay of Cannes.

This is  Agios Stephanos in Corfu, painted in the warmth of the Côte d ‘Azur!


Happy Travelling

Brian