Lavender Fields France Painting Frame:Dark ash There is a gentle stillness

There is a gentle stillness here

scattered with loose white clouds laid down in confident dabs of paint

its gabled houses jostling together in orange

The painterly texture gives the whole woodland a vivid

or let it anchor a study above a writing desk

Lavender Fields France Painting Frame:Dark ash There is a gentle stillnessDeep rows of purple pink lavender converge toward the centre of this photographic landscape, their bushy ridges glowing in the warm light of early evening. Beyond the field, a broad flat topped mountain rises in pale grey and gold, its long ridge stretching across the frame above a band of dry golden grassland. The sky carries soft mauve cloud against fading blue, and the saturated blooms in the foreground draw every detail into focus. There is a