‘Sechoir à Tabac’ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. available Old Tobacco Drying Barns The South West is where most of France’s tobacco is grown. This is an old drying barn (sechoir), not far from my house. In these types of barns, alot of work goes on, as the leaves are hung…
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Saule
30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel. ©. Sold. High grass, bluey tints, another ‘vieux tetard’ (coppiced willow) here in St.Dizier. the right size for plein-air painting Nice to be swinging the brush around again in a more natural way (natural to me, that it is), after having made the mistake of trying to fit…
Château de Biron
30 x 40 cm. Oil on panel. One of the exceptional things about the South West is the sheer density of history. You go out for a drive, and not too infrequently when you turn around a corner, you see a huge chateau or a crumbling medieval church or a house built into a cliff…
L’Orée du Bois
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.
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…