30 x 40 cm. Oil on panel. Back in the green Dordogne. Hot day. Much photosynthesis. High grass, the farmers all busy with the cutting of hay.
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Avec Yvés (aux pieds des Baux de Provence)
Watercolour. Quarter sheet Arches. The view in landscape painting Just carrying on with my rambling musings about ‘THE VIEW’ and previous painters… Same view, again from September last, this time in a different medium. Walk the hills with my ‘confrérès’, other fellow artists who have painted the same landscape, the same paths & the same…
Avec Vincent (aux pieds des Baux de Provence)
12 Figure (61 x50 cm). Oil on canvas. Ask for price. Some more rambling musings about ‘THE VIEW’ and previous painters…(thinking out loud but not sure where this is going). Famous views have been looked at many times (so therefore people recognise them). They have also been painted many times as well. Last september I…
St. Cirq Lapopie #2
Some things about this painting were niggling me, so this is now as far as i can take this image. Generally, about painting architecture in oils in small scale paintings, such as 30 x 40 cm…. difficult! At least,it’s a subject I’ve always preferred to tackle in drawing & watercolour. I find it easier to…
Oak Branches (finished state)
30 x 40 cm. Oil on panel. small-sized ‘alla prima’ paintings Finished after a session in the studio. Making paintings ‘en plein air’ is a complicated process & it differs from painting to painting. No two happen in the same way. Each have their own specific way of unfolding. Some seem to just pop out,…
Oak Branches (unfinished state)
30 x 40cm. Oil on panel. First leaves of oak, with a bronzey tinge – ‘bronzage’ (presumably not bronzed from the sunshine). The sun is now getting hot, the land expiring alot of moisture, a mist hanging over the meadows, the grass knee high. I had to break off painting this because a flock of…
Vieux Têtards
30 x 40 cm . Oil on panel. vieux têtards (fr) = old coppiced willows (en) Same coppiced willows but from the otherside this time. Contre-jour late afternoon, the spring sun light shining on the leaves. Sivery undersides. You can just about make out Henri’s ‘ haras’ or horse riding track in the foreground. He…
Vers Cunéges depuis Montlong
48 x 61 cm. Oil on Canvas. 2006. Ask for price. I was rooting around in my painting stock & dug this one out from last autumn. Always a bit of a jolt to redsicover old works. I’m getting ready for an exhibition ‘Festivale Flore Faune en Périgord Pourpre’ (Cunéges, 26 mai – 2 juin),…
Le Pays du Dropt – peinture
‘Chez Henri et Yvette ‘ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel. Another of my neighbours, here in ‘Le Pays du Dropt.’ The coppiced willows, ‘vieux têtards’, follow the old chemin communal which used to run from Castillonès to Villéreal. Here is a place where you can feel the history in landscape; It hasn’t yet…
Terre Rouge, Appellation de Cahors.
‘Terre Rouge, Appellation de Cahors.’ 30 x40 cm. Oil on Panel. Another thing surprising thing about the Quercy Blanc region is ‘La Terre Rouge’, the red soil that seeps out from underneath the white chalk strata. It’s a heavy clay soil rich in rust (red iron oxide). In the mid-ground, you can just about make…