Bastille Day celebrations

An exhibition of paintings by Alliance française de Ballarat member, Alan Leishman, will open at The Old Butchers Shop Gallery, 112 Seymour Street, Soldiers Hill, on Saturday, 5 August 2-4pm.

The artworks are of England, France and Australia - places which have meant a lot to him.

His French works were painted mainly in and around the small Provençal town of Les Arcs-sur-Argens where he owned a house for 14 years and visited annually. 

Alan has always maintained a close relationship with France as his mother was French and he painted his first ever landscape as a child from his grandfather's balcony in Menton.

The exhibition will be open on Saturdays and Sundays 1pm-4pm until August 27.