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Plein Air Watercolour Studies
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These watercolours were painted outside 'en plein air' from Le Parc
Panoramique du Chateau de Limeuil, which has a wonderful view from on
high, on top of a hill looking over the majestic river Dordogne. They
are in fact demonstration pieces quickly painted in front of many, many
people watching.
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'L'Esperance' - oil on canvas, 20 Paysage ( 73 x 54 cm), 2006. © The
Artist.
Later on, they evolved into a medium sized oil, painted in the studio
from memory & these studies. I wanted emphasise the poetic aspect of this
beautiful view. The Dordogne is a sparkling river. An intense luminosity
veiled by a light mist, even in summer, even in 4O degrees centigrade.
Moonrise over the valley, on a late aternoon in high summer, as it raises
above the valley mist.
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The Dordogne at LalindeToutes Droits Reservˇs© The Artist.
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This is a large oil that I did on the spot. The topography is exact;
note the confluence of the Vezere & the Dordogne, each with their
own bridge.
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'Limeuil - Ete' oil on canvas, 25 Figure (81 x 65 cm), 2005
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'Glover's Island' Oil on board , 1993
This is a large studio piece from my Twickenham, Englanddays. It's the
famous view of the Thames at Richmond Hill. Someone made a witty remark
about it being 'seen before the proporty developpers' meaning that I didn't
paint all the house nor even Heathrow Airport. Edited out. Just the river,
just the light & space, just the essence of the Classical view Do
you have to paint everything? When sketching on the spot, do you have
to include everything? There is the argument that overly poetised paintings
no longer have any contemporary reality, idylls that don't belong in this
inperferct wordld. Or you can say that the poetic landscape tradtion of
painting is an xpressions of our yearning for paradise, out flowings of
the shining river that flows through our lives at the level of our heart's
yearnings....
When I was sailing on the Nile, the Captain of the felucca boat told
me that the arabs say that the Nile flows directtly out from Paradise.
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