ALLEN GINSBERG – SUNFLOWER SUTRA (Adam Cope – ‘A Perfect Beauty’, watercolour 2010, A4 prints available). Here’s an excerpt : A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellent lovely sunflower existence! a sweet natural eye to the new hip moon, woke up alive and excited grasping in the sunset shadow sunrise golden monthly breeze!…
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Animals Drawings – Ducks & Cockerels
As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities…
Three Acrylic Plein-Air Paintings
And this acrylic of a house in sunshine, not a demonstration painting:
The Aviform Prehistoric Geometric Sign – Drawing of a Cliff & Birds.
A romance, a dream, a fantasy. These cliffs in Quercy Périgord, where the people of the Ice Age once lived. They mark my mental landscape, as they must have also made a deep impression on the minds of the hunter-gatherers. Romanticism attempts an affective fusion between person & her enviroment. Science attempts to practice detached…
Stone Lithograph of a Stone Cliff . Dogen : Rock face as geological life
Stone lithograph of a cliff – “the elephant” ‘The Elephant’ – Drawing of a Cliff. Graphite, biro & watercolour. A3 © Adam Cope We, mankind, arose amidst the wandering of the ice and marched with it. We are in some sense shaped by it, as it has shaped the stones. Perhaps our very fondness for…
What does ‘Medium’ Mean in Fine Art Practice? The same view in three different mediums.
Interesting to see the same landscape view in three different mediums : drawing, watercolour & stone lithography. Different material, different effect. Each medium is good for certain effects. In the above three images,, watercolour is delicate colours & brushmarks, conté is so immediate & so fresh, lithography is good for a design, a powerful composition.…
Don’t Fall Off!
some watercolours from last autumn in the Célé valley. Vertigo? Impossible blue sky but true… yes true deep blue with only free wheeling birds 🙂 The blue sky that envelops us all… that evokes a sense of freedom in me 🙂
Watercolour of Cliffs in South West France
Watercolour from last autumn. Love this place : pure happiness. Painted on handmade paper from the dordogne ‘moulin de larroque’
Watercolour of Spring in the Dordogne
This Candlemas morning (“festa candelarum”, the festival of candles), there was the first ray of sunlight after weeks of heavy rain. The light is again high & strong. I’m yearning for spring & fresh air & sunlight. This watercolour from March last year. Hope that February won’t be rude or glacial! It can be freezing…
Watercolour of a Lotus Flower
This was the last lotus flower of 2013 that I saw on the lotus pond. Somewhat battered by the winds & cold nights here in the Dordogne. But still offering up its golden heart, despite of it all. I love the life cycles of flowers. Yes they reach apogee, perfection then deteriorate, disband, fall apart.…