Next week I teach one of my Painting Holidays au Chateau de Lanquais, France I’m currently busy preparing & thus it might be abit difficult to keep this blog’s promise of ‘a painting a week’ (if I hadn’t spent so much time chatting away to myself here in the deafening silence of this blog, then…
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Notan Photograph – ‘The Wirly Gates’
‘The Wirly Gates’ 2004 © The Artist. Notan can mean something/nothing as well as dark/light Notan photography? Is the black emptiness? Photography has difficult of reading things in shadows. It frequently makes pictures with black nothingness as shadows… These digital cameras are great for ‘visual thinking’ … working things out in a visual way… kind…
Notan : ‘La Maison Peyarade, Bergerac’
‘La Maison Payarade, Bergerac’ Encre Chine. Tous Droits Reservés I’ve been following some the talk about ‘Notan’ over on Katherine Tyrell’s blog, so I thought I’d post this three-tone drawing. Not quite a Notan I know, as it’s not flat enough. Has perspective & depth rather than flat pattern. I decided to try however to…
Fauvist Barns, Heightened Colour…Vlaminck & Kandinsky
this is the second post of ‘fauvist barns’ ‘Sechoir à Tabac’ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel © The Artist available anti-fauve barns Just updating the post ‘Sechoir à Tabac’ (it’s about the above painting) in which I chatted about ‘anti-fauve’ barns ….trying to keep a barn door rusty brownish red, rather than letting…
Blé en Dordogne
‘Blé & Chemin, Boisse’ 33 x 41 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. sold path through the corn in the sunny dordogne didn’t walk along the tractor tracks, no wish to damage the farmer’s crop enchantment an invitation
L’Orge en Dordogne, sud ouest France
33 x 41 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur). SOLD Fields of colour, not quite colour field painting. “When we walked in fields of gold” – Sting
Artists & Ecology #3 : Constable, Corn & the Destruction of Hedgerows
72 x 34 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. sold Constable’s ‘Cornfield’ While now a fresher gale, sweeping with shadowy gust the fields of corn – Text used by John Constable in exhibition catalogue, for his ‘The Cornfield’ in The National Gallery, London John Constable, “The Cornfield”, painted 1826. Size: 56 by…
Vignoble & Orge, St. Dizier
30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. Post-scriptum 2009 : passed by this place yesterday & was saddened to see that many of the hedges & trees are no longer there. Grubbed out. Gone. they’ve gone mad the tractors & the chain saws aren’t enough the trees have gone now it’s the turn…
Camera Manufacturor’s Default Now Reimbursed
‘Dordogne Marchande, Lalinde’ photograph by Adam Cope I used to have a good digital camera & used to photograph ‘en plein air’ whilst painting. Here’s a snap I took whilst painting ‘Reedbeds at Lalinde’ (see a few post previously). It was a Minolta Dimage A1, which I had a for a brief couple of years,…
Photographs by Francis Annet
Photo : Francis Annet . Tous Droits Reservés. Copyright : Francis Annet During ‘Le 3eme Festival Flore Faune’ I exhibited alongsides Francis Annet, a photographer whose work I greatly enjoy. I feel his photos or ‘cliches’ as they are sometimes called in french, go beyond the ‘happy snaps’ (or ‘cliches’ as they are known in…