‘Busker’ A5 scribble in ink Market day in Bergerac. Busker with electric guitar & vox-box on the pavements. I particularily liked the juxtaposition between him, the artist doubtlessly living in precarity, and the publicity for life insurance. Everything has its price & the price of a life of creativity is often financial insecurity. I thinK…
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Sunflowers III
‘Sunflowers III’24 x 32 cm.Watercolour. Lana 220GMS© The Artist.Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur).SOLD
Sunflowers – the Last of The Stragglers
‘Last of The Stragglers’ 50 x 41 cm watercolour. Arches 180 GMS. © The Artist. SOLD I’ve been watching a field of late flowering sunflowers. Normally all the sunflowers are harvested by the end of July, and then afterwards, sometimes there might be a random second flowering of the self-sown seeds scatttered here or there.…
Sunflowers circa 1997 – Van Gogh 1889 – Who ‘owns’ subject matter?
‘Sol en Victus’ 1997 Oil on Canvas 100 cm x 60 cm Copyright – Tous Droits Reservés ‘ Sunflowers’ Vincent Van Gogh 1889 Destroyed by Fire in World War II, Japan It’s a kind of painting that rather changes in character, and takes on a richness the longer you look at it (are you paying…
Early Watercolours circa 1986
‘Trees in the Fog, (England)’ watercolour & gouache, circa 1986 bockingford, 45 x 33cm © The Artist. Foggy morning outside this morning. We’ve recently been moving things about ‘chez-nous’ in the endlessly on-going restoration work on our old, leaky house. bucketing it in through th estudio roof. About three insches floding teh other day. And…
Albas, point de vue surplombant Le Lot
‘Albas 1’ ‘Albas 2’ ‘ Albas 3’ Watercolour 28 x 38 cm. Quarter ‘imperial’ sheet Arches rough 300 gms. © The Artist. Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur). Looking down over a meander in a river Sunny evening point from a rock outcrop overlooking a meander in the river Lot, the…
Journées Européennes du Patrimoine 2007
Last weekend was the ‘European Days of Heritage’. It’s a wonderful chance to see some of the sites that aren’t always open to public or just not very well known. Visiting out-of-the-way ‘manoirs’ & ‘chartreuses’ always surprises me. Not just the amount of restoration & rebuilding that has gone on in the Dordogne these last…
‘Le Pigeonnier’
28 x 38 cm. Watercolour – arches rough 300GMS © The Artist. available Lovely sun drenched high pressure these last two weeks. Clear as a bell. The invisibility, for want of a better word, of the high scintillating light inspires a palette of transparent pigments – cobalt, helio turquoise, winsor lemon, raw sienna – then…
Pierre Lescot – Architect du Louvre, Architect of Chateau de Lanquais?
‘Lucarne, Facade de Nord, Palais Renaissance XVI éme, Chateau de Lanquais’ Pencil, ink & felt tips. approx 30 x 40 cm Tous Droits Reserves. © The Artist. Here’s another drawing of Lanquais. From a few years ago but still with the felt tips. Maybe more of feel of a technical drawing than my current craze…
NOTAN – Annabel Drawing
Felt tip & pencil. A5 © The Artist. This is a notan drawing of Annabel drawing on last week’s workshop. It was done on day two, and I liked the way she was bending over her drawing , really concentrating. I like it when painters meet up & make ‘un entourage’, a crowd of painters…
