John's paintings are gloriously colourful and vibrant; sunlight filters through leaves in trees illuminating a mountainside stream or catching the golden colours of a freshly harvested crop. Farmhouses and barns in Provence, chateaux or cottages nestling on a hillside overlooking an azure blue sea, all sing out in bright, unfettered tapestries of colour    in his paintings.

Everyday images are also included in John's repertoire, such as bustling market stalls laden with fruit or people enjoying a café lifestyle, cobbled streets or weathered, paint-scarred boats tethered to harbour side jetties or   drawn up onto stony beaches.

John Lawrence paints mainly from life as he is anxious to re-engage the viewer in "sensing the moment", inviting us in  to feel the cold splash of the sea as it crashes over rocks  or the warmth of the sun that illuminates the landscape  that he so clearly loves to observe and paint.