‘ The Valley Spirit’ 1997 Oil 56 x 76 cm – 22 x 30 inches © The Artist. Email me for details about buying this painting The Mind in the Cave by David Lewis-Williams “ How, the, did people come to make representational images of animals and so forth out of projected mental imagery? I…
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Markets in Dordogne – Inflation in France
‘Cantal 43,95 €uros le Kilo’ 2008 A5 pencil © The Artist. Markets in Dordogne Cold morning in Issigeac marché, everyone dressed up against the chilly wind. Hats ‘de rigor’. This market stall owner dresssed up with a ‘chimney-stack’ type hat & ‘handle bar’ moustache. Smiling. These winter off-season markets are friendly events 🙂 Inflation in…
busker – les artistes de la rue en Dordogne
‘Patrice’ #1 2008 ink A5 © adam cope ‘Patrice’ #2 2008 ink A5 © adam cope don’t he look like bob dylan? sounds just like him too… hhhhhhahahahahhahahaaaaaaaaaaaa Hey mister tamborine man Hey mister tamborine man play a song for me i ain’t going no where & it all seems the same to me… in…
Font de Gaume, Dordogne
‘Font de Gaume’ 2004 Ink & Watercolour. double spread A5 sketchbook © The Artist. Ne jamais dire “Fontaine, je ne boirai pas de ton eau” – Périgordien Populaire Font de Gaume is probably the most famous prehistoric painted ‘grotte’ (cave) in Les Eyzies (go abit further up the Vezérè & you arrive at Lascaux).It’s geography…
‘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…
Célé Valley Dreaming
‘Célé Valley Dreaming’ 2008 Ink & Watercolour. 23 x 33cm hand made linen rag paper © The Artist. 200 euros
Pen & Ink-Leonardo da Vinci-Stone Lithography – Mythological Images from Prehistory
Second Posting of Two : Marcilhac sur Célé – Pen & Ink – How to Draw Rocks, Cliffs … & Comets??? – Leonardo da Vinci – Stone Lithography – Mythological Images PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART POSTING – How to draw rock & cliffs ‘La Vallée de Célé depuis La Croix de Renard’ 1996 Ink…
Marcilhac sur Célé – how to draw rocks & cliffs -stone lithography
First Posting of Two Posts part two, second post – Leonardo dea Vinci’s drawings of rocks ‘Postcard from Marcilhac sur Célé’ 1996 15 x 10 cm Stone Lithography © The Artist. Edition sold out. My Personal Experience of an Artist’ s Residency In 1996, I won an artist-in-residency to make limited editions of stone lithographs…
Happy 1st Birthday ‘Dordogne Painting Days’
Happy 1st Birthday ‘Dordogne Painting Days’ Joyeuse Anniversaire ‘Dordogne Painting Days’ Right, let’s all have a jolly good sing-song & celebrate! Sing wildly out of tune 1 use lots of BoLd uppErcase TYPOS & exclamtion marKS……. now the next song is one I learnt with my children: ‘Now I’m one, I’m having so much fun!…
Grand Roc, Les Eyzies, Dordogne – UNFINISHED STATE
‘Le Grand Roc, Les Eyzies’ Oil on Canvas 86,5 x 76 cm ; 34 x 30 inches © The Artist. email me for details about how to buy wip = work in progress These great rock faces … huge cliffs …. they mark one ……… working on this slow large painting, over the last few…