‘My Brillant Career’ A5 doodle. Ink © The Artist. my not so brillant career All these recent posts of my retrospective work over the last twenty years has depressed me. Gloomy & disappointment….. so little? To cheer myself up I did a doodle, which started off with a red dot & ended in a…
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Figs II
‘Figs II’ 32 x 24 cm. Watercolour. Lana 220 GMS © The Artist. sold I forgot to mention the garlic in the previous recipe. Fry some garlic along in the duck’s breast. When the meat is done (rosy… sometimes I add a splash of raspberry vinager which then turns this recipe into a kind of…
Figs
32 x 28 cm. Watercolour, Lana 220 GMS © The Artist. sold Figs from the garden.Thinking about how to cook them. Vegetarian resolve goes to pot. The South West is the land of THE DUCK. Here’s how I’d do them: Slow fry the duck’s breast in a frying pan, Cook till rosy red but still…
Electric Guitar Busker – ‘L’Assurance Vie’ – life insurance?
‘Busker’ A5 scribble in ink Market day in Bergerac. Busker with electric guitar & vox-box on the pavements. I particularily liked the juxtaposition between him, the artist doubtlessly living in precarity, and the publicity for life insurance. Everything has its price & the price of a life of creativity is often financial insecurity. I thinK…
Sunflowers III
‘Sunflowers III’24 x 32 cm.Watercolour. Lana 220GMS© The Artist.Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur).SOLD
Sunflowers – the Last of The Stragglers
‘Last of The Stragglers’ 50 x 41 cm watercolour. Arches 180 GMS. © The Artist. SOLD I’ve been watching a field of late flowering sunflowers. Normally all the sunflowers are harvested by the end of July, and then afterwards, sometimes there might be a random second flowering of the self-sown seeds scatttered here or there.…
Sunflowers circa 1997 – Van Gogh 1889 – Who ‘owns’ subject matter?
‘Sol en Victus’ 1997 Oil on Canvas 100 cm x 60 cm Copyright – Tous Droits Reservés ‘ Sunflowers’ Vincent Van Gogh 1889 Destroyed by Fire in World War II, Japan It’s a kind of painting that rather changes in character, and takes on a richness the longer you look at it (are you paying…
Early Watercolours circa 1986
‘Trees in the Fog, (England)’ watercolour & gouache, circa 1986 bockingford, 45 x 33cm © The Artist. Foggy morning outside this morning. We’ve recently been moving things about ‘chez-nous’ in the endlessly on-going restoration work on our old, leaky house. bucketing it in through th estudio roof. About three insches floding teh other day. And…
Albas, point de vue surplombant Le Lot
‘Albas 1’ ‘Albas 2’ ‘ Albas 3’ Watercolour 28 x 38 cm. Quarter ‘imperial’ sheet Arches rough 300 gms. © The Artist. Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur). Looking down over a meander in a river Sunny evening point from a rock outcrop overlooking a meander in the river Lot, the…
Journées Européennes du Patrimoine 2007
Last weekend was the ‘European Days of Heritage’. It’s a wonderful chance to see some of the sites that aren’t always open to public or just not very well known. Visiting out-of-the-way ‘manoirs’ & ‘chartreuses’ always surprises me. Not just the amount of restoration & rebuilding that has gone on in the Dordogne these last…