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'Le Cingle de Tremolat. ' Oil on Canvas. Approx 170 x
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'Tremolat' (detail). Watercolour.
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'Cingle de Tremolat.' Watercolour. 50 x 25 cm.
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'Tremolat.' Watercolour. 56 x 76 cm.
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Henry Miller wrote about the Dordogne
"A few months before the war broke out I decided
to take a long vacation. I had long wanted to visit the valley of the
Dordogne, for one thing. So I packed my valise and took the train for
Rocamadour where I arrived early one morning about sun up, the moon still
gleaming brightly. It was a stroke of genius on my part to make the tour
of the Dordogne region before plunging into the bright and hoary world
of Greece. Just to glimpse the black, mysterious river at D™mme from the
beautiful bluff at the edge of the town is something to be grateful for
all oneÕs life. To me this river, this country, belong to the poet, Rainer
Maria Rilke. It is not French, not Austrian, not European even: it is
the country of enchantment which the poets have staked out and which they
alone may lay claim to. It is the nearest thing to Paradise this side
of Greece. Let us call it the FrenchmanÕs paradise, by way of making a
concession. Actually it must have been a paradise for many thousands of
years. I believe it must have been so for the Cro-Magnon man, despite
the fossilised evidence of the great caves which point to a condition
of life rather bewildering and terrifying. I believe that the Cro-Magnon
man settled here because he was extremely intelligent and had a highly
developed sense of beauty. I believe that in him the religious sense was
already highly developed and that it flourished here even if he lived
like an animal in the depths of the caves. I believe that this great peaceful
region of France will always be a sacred spot for man and that when the
cities have killed off the poets this will be the refuge and the cradle
of the poets to come. I repeat, it was most important for me to have seen
the Dordogne: it gives me hope for the future of the race, for the future
of the earth itself. France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne
will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men."
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'Tremolat, Etude. ' 2002 oil
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"An excellent Quebec painter, Lorne Bouchard, once gave me some
advice. He told me that a painter needs to work from three sources--from
self-generated photo reference, from life, and from the imagination. "All
painters," he said, "favour one or the other, but all three are needed
to gain maximum feeling--and this goes even for abstractionists and those
others who glean their motifs from their minds." " Robert GENN
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