Travel talk: Painters of Provence

Join Julie Ewington as she explores Provence of the late-19th-century. Ewington will journey you from Cézanne’s beloved home in Aix-en-Provence to Arles, where Vincent van Gogh found his ‘studio in the South’. From vibrant, bustling Marseilles, home to Adolph Monticelli whose paintings inspired van Gogh, to Saint Rémy-de-Provence, where van Gogh found peace, for a year, in Saint-Paul Asylum. Far from the Parisian art world, Ewington asks: why was Provence a cradle of modern art?

Julie Ewington is an independent writer, curator and broadcaster. She has taught art history at Australian universities, focusing on modern and contemporary art.

Ewington will be leading the Art Gallery Society's World Art Tour Painters of Provence in May 2026. 

Image: Vallon des Auffes Port in Marseille, France, photo: iStock