Gav Banns Art

Path through the nature reserve impressionist landscapeThis is an impressionist landscape from a local nature reserve in the West of France, where the border of one department meets ...

This is an original, impressionist oil painting of some listed farm outbuildings found on the Dunham Massey estate in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It is sized 30cm x 40...

The Château de Rochechouart can be found in the department of Haute-Vienne in rural France. It sits aloft a promontory rock, and houses a contemporary modern art gallery. This oi...

This is from my local forest on the border of Limousin France. The forest is also a nature reserve, home to rare amphibians, butteflies and birds. It was one of the blissful retreats...

The Loire Valley of France is home to a number of impressive castles; I chanced upon this one while travelling from Paris to Auvergne and seized the opportunity to create this impres...

Ségur-le-Château is a beautiful medieval town on the border of Corrèze and Haute-Vienne (West of France) and is classified as one of the most beautiful villages in France. The bu...

The relative seclusion of the famous Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris (the resting place for Oscar Wilde, Édith Piaf, Frederic Chopin, Jim Morrison, Marcel Proust ....) has always ca...

Along the GR 34 coastal path in Finisterre Brittany, with stunning views over the aquamarine ocean. This is an impressionist oil painting capturing th...

Deep in the rural forests and hills of Limousin France, life has stood still for a few hundred years, or at least you could be forgiven for thinking so. This impressionist painting...

I always find this timeless corner of Paris serene, despite its association with death, or perhaps because of it. It was the dappled light cut between the shadows of the trees that c...

Although a smaller shadow of what the park once used to be (reduced from 12 hectares to 1.8), le jardin clos Art déco et la Folie, just west of Paris, is a welcomed retreat in a well-to-do residential area. It encapsulates the very formal French garden design...

A small collection of majestic trees on the National Trust owned estate, Calke Abbey in Derbyshire England. The old barn and stables can be seen behind the serpentine road. It has...

The old tree sits next to a medieval church (out of view) surrounded by several monasteries and an old stone barn as shown in the background, in Limous...

A house sitting on a cliff on the Charente-Maritime coast (west of France), painted in oils in an impressionistic manner, on a primed wood panel. Left to dry for a year before varnis...

Parc des Buttes-Chaumont is a public garden located in the northeast of Paris , France in the 19th arrondissement. It was inaugurated in 1867 and is one of the largest green spaces i...

An original impressionist oil painting of the Eiffel Tower in Paris in slightly hazy weather. Paris still holds a special place in my heart, as somewhere I used to reside, and on ...

An old stone farmhouse with outbuildings in Charente France - a very typical sight in this region, close to the Limousin border, where most houses and hamlets typify a period from th...

This is a slightly lesser known road in the city of Rome on the Aventine Hill. Clivio di Rocca Savella for centuries provided the main access to the Aventine, and became one of the m...

This is an original impressionist oil painting of the river in Crozant, Creuse (France) in the autumn, from the region where I reside. A whole impressionist school known as the "Croz...

In the rural parts of France, many of the old stone farm buildings still scatter the landscape; some abandoned, many still in use. This is a typical scene from the area where I live,...

Built in the early 1800's, I was captivated by the ornate lion providing fresh spring water in the commune of Dun-le-Palestel (Creuse, France). For a long time, this spring was the o...

Saint-Cloud Park adjoins Paris to the South-West and covers 460 hectares. After a great fire in 1870 the Château that once dominated the estate, was shortly demolished. It's a park ...

This is a view point from the edge of the abbey of Saint-Junien de Nouaillé-Maupertuis in Vienne (close to Poitiers) France. It's history dates back to the 7th century, and the abbe...

This oil painting captures the quiet reverence of a French priest standing within the hallowed walls of a church, bathed in the warm glow of golden light filtering through stained-gl...

I typically paint the region of France where I live, which covers quite a large area. This painting is from my visit to Saint-Robert, a very quaint village in the Correze, known as o...

This is one of the many corn fields that is grown in the rural area where I reside. I enjoyed the way the light was bouncing from the heads of the corn, and the clouds appeared to rh...

Verteuil-sur-Charente is a picturesque town in Nouvelle Aquitaine, rich in history. This original impressionist painting is of the tanning mill, located in the heart of the village....

The tree sits in a remote rural village in Haute-Vienne France; I was captivated by the dancing leaves as they radiated the sun. Painted in a loose, impressionist manner on Italian c...

The Charente Maritime coast in Nouvelle Aquitaine features some beautiful beaches, 16th century lighthouses and carrelets (fishing huts on stilts). These particular rocks can be f...

This is an impressionist oil painting of a house by the ocean in Perros-Guirec, Brittany France, close to the granite rose coastline (côte de Granit Rose), popular with tourists, an...

An empty stone barn deep in the French countryside, slowly being taken over by nature. Painted with oils in an impressionistic manner, left adequately to dry before varnishing. :: Pa...

The Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest in Paris, and home to famous individuals including Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Frederic Chopin and Édith Pia...

From within the city of Rome as dusk settled into night. This is a loosely painted impressionist oil painting on Italian manufacture canvas attached to a wooden board. It is sized 24...

This is an original impressionist painting of the Charente-Maritime Coast in the West of France. It is painted on an Italian canvas panel (canvas attached to wood) and has been left ...

These young American oaks lead down a rural path towards a beautiful river, deep inside rural France. I had a strange moment of synchronicity there. By the river's edge I turned to a...

From the edge of a shallow pond, still and peaceful against a lush forest backdrop. It is painted on a wooden panel that has been sealed and carefully prepared. The oil painting has...

The parks in Paris are always a peaceful means to 'leave' the city behind, to immerse with a well tended spot of nature before embracing the lively bustle of the city again. This is...

This is an original oil painting, on a natural brown canvas stretched onto board, sealed, primed and painted with the highest quality oil paints. It comes with vintage wooden fram...

It was an unseasonably warm February's day when I took a walk along the river Vienne where the old industry decays along the river's edge. It is a day I will always remember because I found two cats in the river just a few metres from this scene; one heavily pregnant, and a kitten close to death, and with a little effort was able to save them both. The kitten stayed with me (after 3 days fighting for life at the vets), and the other cat gave birth to healthy kittens two weeks later. She was named Vienne after the river and was found a good home. The oil painting uses...

A loosely painted, impressionist oil painting of a rural French setting on a sunny summer's day. It has been painted on a canvas panel (canvas attached to wood), sized 20x30cm (7.8i...

This is an original oil painting of an elderly Swedish fisherman, using impressionistic techniques and the finest professional oil paints. The painting is sized 46cm x 33cm on canvas...

This is a typical stone barn in rural Limousin France. This scene and architecture exists throughout the region, but this one in particular captivated me on a sunny, and unseasonable...

The rural French Limousin countryside remains a step back in time. Many old megaliths pop up in fields and forests along my walks, alongside rickety stone barns and old houses that l...

This is an original oil painting of the Dam Head Bridge, a great II listed bridge found in the grounds of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, by the River Dearne, and set just across from ...

Morning amble o'er the grass strown towpath. Impressionist Canal painting. An early morning gongoozle by the edge of a canal, a memory from a former life. An original oil painting...

There is a wonderful feeling of Waldeinsamkeit; a sense of being alone and at one with the forest. This particular forest scene is part of the Glane valley, and the view is almost ...

Honfleur is well known for its old port, and was a location frequented by such artists as Courbet and Claude Monet. This oil painting features some of the local buildings close to th...

I'm surrounded by forests, one of my favourite retreats to just be silent and present with my surroundings. The Germans have a word for it - Waldeinsamkeit - being alone, and having ...

This is one of my local walks by a river with stepping stones, set in a beautiful, not often visited, nature reserve in the west of France . Across from the river sits an old stone b...

During the strictest of the Covid lockdowns, we were not permitted to go beyond 1km from residence. This provided an opportunity to paint one of the fields close to home towards the ...

From the banks of Staunton Harold Reservoir alongside the Calke Abbey estate on the Leicestershire/Derbyshire border. View across to the field and haybales. Painted in an impressioni...

The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte I, and can be found between The Louvre museum and the Tuileries Ga...

This is a pathway into a nature reserve (home to salamanders, rare frogs and butterflies) in a remote part of Western France. It is painted on Italian canvasboard (canvas attached to...

This is a local river scene early in the morning when the first leaves are starting to turn and the dew is heavy in the grass. Painted with W&N watercolors on Fabriano Artisco paper....

Dunham Massey was acquired by the National Trust, and consists of a Georgian house, garden, deer park and a series of outbuildings, some of which are th...

The early yellow blossom on forsythia, growing wild by the road side in Spring. Painted in an impressionist manner on Italian canvas attached to a woode...

There is a wonderful feeling of Waldeinsamkeit; a sense of being alone and at one with the forest. This particular forest scene is part of the Glane valley, and the view is almost ...

Nearly 40 years had passed since my childhood excursion to Brittany. Returning in the late August of 2018, I parked the car and walked down between a narrow row of old houses, and my very first glimpse of the ocean was dominated by these interesting rocks, mounted by a small chapel in the small town of Pont-Blanc. In those very seconds a red sailboat...