WHERE the bee sucks, there suck I | Painting Holidays in Dordogne & Provence, France 2025

‘Cherry, Quince, Bay’
medium size oil on canvas
36 x 48 cm (approx 14 x 18 inches)
© adam cope

WHERE the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly.
After summer merrily:
Merrily, merrily, shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the boughGentle Will, The Temptest, Act V, sc.i

M-L remarked that this spring-time painting has a lightness of fresh touch & keyed to light pastel tones, after the hoary winter trees & cliffs that I’ve been working on during recent winters.