Dates Exhibitions Summer 2011 * 4 July – 31 July. solo – Galerie Ap’Art, Marcilhac sur Cele, LOT vernissage – lundi soir 4 Juilliet * 17 – 24 August . solo – La Maison des Vins de BERGERAC * 25 August – 24 September. ASSA group show – Galerie de la Presbytere, ST.AVIT DE SENIEUR…
Author: Adam
first drive your car into the river
First drive your car into the river tea time… note the thermos on car-roof then just dive right in… it’s a hot day! i’m painting by the river here
plein-air painting – Le Cingle de Limeuil, Dordogne
‘Le Cingle de Limeuil’ Cingle = meander in the river Dordogne at Limeuil. ‘Le Cingle de Limeuil’ Oil on canvas 65 x 54cm (approx 26 x 22 inches). © The Artist. sold The above painting is plein-air, painted on location, on the spot looking down from the steep scape slope, buzzards flying up on…
WIP : Le Cingle de Limeuil, Dordogne
WORK IN PROGRESS – WIP ‘Le Cingle de Limeuil, Dordogne’ ETAPE …. En Progres … Oil on Canvas 65 x 54cm (approx 25,5 x 21,5 inches). © The Artist. Le cingle = the meander of the dordogne at Limeuil FINISHED STATE ETAPE FINALE HOMAGE À CÉZANNE Too much like Cézanne? Ahh maitre Cézanne, you…
WIP : compositional sketch & tonal ‘notan’
WIP ….WORK IN PROGRESS – watercolour – a tonal ‘notan’……WIP I’ve been working on a large oil painting these last three weeks. A commission. It’s 130 x 81 cm – approx 51 x 32 inches. Bigger than my usual size. Good to be doing something different. A lot of work, which I’ll post as WIPs…
Spring Greens – WIP : Large Plein-Air Oil
This is a commission 🙂 It’s great to be doing a large plein-air oil again 🙂 It will take several more sessions on site & several more back in the studio. Way bigger than usual, so good to be working ‘out of the habitual box’. Tables & studio easel outside, on the edge of a…
Life’s a Beach
bright spring yellows – Matisse on shock
‘Printemps, Dropt’ Medium Size Oil on Canvas 12 paysage format francais © The Artist. Incredible rebirth of the leaves, yellow gold in the bright white sunlight. The thing is just how do you use colour ? Here’s another painting of the same scene a few weeks earlier, just before the leaves opened, dating from 2007:…
La Dordogne à Lalinde 2 – L’Eau et les Rêves, Gaston Bachelard.
‘Ilots, La Dordogne à Lalinde’ Medium Size Oil on canvas x 40cm (approx 30 x 14 inches). © The Artist I was born in a country of brooks and rivers, in a corner of Champagne, called le Vallage for the great number of its valleys. The most beautiful of its places for me was…
Poplar Grove, Dusk
‘Poplar Grove, Dusk ‘ Oil on MDF panel 33 x 41cm (approx 13 x 16 inches) – 6 figure format francais © adam cope These groves of trees are planted not far from the river Dropt. All straight & square, they are grown for cardboard boxes. I like openness & airiness of the groves. Not…