The beloved "A Year In Marrakesh" by Peter Mayne (above) provided some of the inspiration for my painting "Between Marrakesh and Tarifa", and my copy of the book also appears in the drawing shown below..
In the chapter entitled "Monsieur D____´s Pavilion" Mayne gives an account of a guest house or minzah situated within a walled garden. Without following closely the author´s description I felt the painting was somehow invested with its "spirit of place", while the surrounding landscape is probably more Al Andalus than Morocco...
The author writes that on the day of his arrival in Marrakesh,
"The road was blue with fallen jacaranda blossom, the air yellow with sunshine".
Well that will be another painting...
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