You have to love a city that features a painter’s life as one of its main attractions, that and three hundred plus days of sunshine. You have to love a painter who became obsessed with painting a mountain situated a mere twenty minute drive from that city. You have to love Aix-en Provence where Paul Cézanne was born, lived and died, and the Montagne Sainte Victoire he painted eighty seven times. Time and weather combined to deprive me of the opportunity to see the imposing mountain up close and personal, which only means I `now have a perfect excuse to return.

 

Walking Project 121_on the painter’s trail – Aix-en-Provence from chris worland on Vimeo.