Dessins de la Cathedrale de Sarlat

I did some drawings whilst exhibiting in ‘La Maison de la Boêtie’, opposite the Cathedral Saint Sardos of Sarlat. Some where done in 2006 as well. Here’s some drawings of the architecture of the Romanesque cathedral (thirteenth century) with it’s patron saint St.Sardos: with it’s Baroque door The strange bell tower in slate The archbishop’s…

Watercolour of an Owl Hut built into a Cliff in Dordogne

Watercolour of an Owl Hut built into a Cliff in Dordogne ‘Maison Troglodyte’ means literally a troglodyte’s house, or a subterranian house built into a cliff-face. Here the mouth of a cave has been converted into a little house with a door & two windows, with stone bench in front with the typically Périgordian motif…

Reference Photos for Plein-Air Painters 1 – Gerhard Richter’s Photo Atlas

‘Sechoir à Tabac 3 – Crépuscule’ (Tobacco Drying Barn 3 – Twilight) Oil on Canvas 38 x 46cm (approx 15 x 19 inches). © The Artist. Available – email me Some photos of this huge, magnificent tobacco drying barn. My Reference Photos of ‘Sechoir à Tabac’   Wish there was a person by the door…

Huts 1

Oil on Panel 30 x 40 cm ©adam cope for sale Huts in my village of St.Dizier on the banks of the river Dropt. Hut -o-logy = the study of huttery? Irony is that my current attraction to igenious & idiosynicratic huts, if some delipated, has for it’s background my ongoing worries with the leaking…

Nature reclaiming Architecture – a History of House Prices in the Dordogne

‘Le Vieux Pont’ 2008 Watercolour. 28 x 38cm (15 x 11 inches). © The Artist. A Short History of House Prices in the Dordogne Here’s a story for the Quatorze Juillet about ‘les anglais debarquement en Dordogne’… An old crumbling bridge over a stream, an abandoned road, the ghosts of yesteryears, deep in the woods,…

THe Great Sphinx of Giza – Watercolour

  The Great Sphinx of Giza Fascination lasts.   Some disconfabulation : The Great Sphinx of Giza is an Old Kingdom Sphinx & is not to be confused with the later day Sphinx of Oedipus & the Greeks. Though the riddle of its meaning remains. Orion Belt astrological figure dating from Altantis? Sekhmet Lioness of…