No Space for Nature in the Countryside? Wendell Berry

Concernant la Destruction de la Ripisylve de la Riviére Dropt dans les Cantons de Villeréal, Castillonnès et Eymet. Le Dropt à St. Quentin (avant la coups de hiver 2011) oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm © adam cope I went downstream to the next commune to paint.Wild wood. Tangle wood. Quiet days dreaming besides…

Artists & Ecology 5 – Le Dropt, Castillonnès – une trame verte?

‘ Nyiad – Le Dropt à St.Dizier (avant les’ oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm 2010 © adam cope An ash tree growing out of the middle of an old crack willow, not coppiced for many a year. ‘ Nyiad’ Sketchbook pen & ink 2010 ©adam cope Wild Wood. Tangle Wood. Nyiad. Dryiad. River.…

painting of the dordogne river in winter – UNFINISHED STATE

UNFINISHED STATE WIP work inprogress ‘Ilots, Pontours, Dordogne – 2’ UNFINISHED STATE Medium Size Oil on Canvas 70 x 33 cm ©Adam Cope Actual Size Detail – to give you an idea of how the paint is applied Palette of muted winter browns in weak sunlight. Bright ultramarine reflections of the sky on still waters.…

Ilôts dans la Dordogne

‘Ilôts, Pontours, Dordogne – 1’ Oil on Canvas 46 x 38 cm ©Adam Cope Dark waters fast flowing, white water crests over rapids & reed beds. Opaque water, gun metal grey flavoured with mud. Little islands – ‘ilôts’ – with willow, driftwood & pinky orange cornus reeds. Cormorants & swans. Cold, grey day.Here’s a watercolour…

La Dordogne, Bergerac

‘The Dordogne at Begerac’ The boat is ‘un gabare’, a flat bottomed haulage vessel from yesteryear, used for transporting cargo downstream. Now it’s restored, motorised & hauls tourist both up & downstream. A long sunny summer, with even october smiling with blue skies 🙂 Back from exhibiting at La Maison des Vin de Bergerac. Two…

‘La Fontaine Guilliérè’

Carrying on with my review of rocks, cliffs & prehistory. Sorry it’s retrospective, but part of how I use this blog is to unfuddle my thinking. Here’s some paintings that I’ve never digitally recorded. Only got a few pre-digital camera badly exposed silver halide photos as records. ‘La Fontaine Guilliérè’ 2000 oil on canvas 86…