Iain Vellacott Oil Painter

Pétanque & French Boules Paintings

Oil on canvas

No subject says the South of France quite like a game of pétanque under the plane trees. Iain Vellacott has painted the players again and again — the concentration, the low golden light raking across the gravel, the boules catching the sun. These oil paintings of French boules are among his most loved works, and one hangs on the home page of this site.

Oil painting of men playing pétanque — French boules — beneath plane trees, by Iain Vellacott
Oil painting of a game of pétanque under the plane trees in a French square, by Iain Vellacott
Oil painting of boules players gathered under the plane trees, by Iain Vellacott
Oil painting of figures resting beneath a plane-tree avenue in France, by Iain Vellacott
Oil painting of people gathered under the plane trees to play boules, by Iain Vellacott