River Dropt 2 – Wendell Berry on Local Care of Shared Places

15 x 11″ – 28 x 38 cm Tanglewood. A bird song corridor through an empty land. Sluggish shallow river. Old roots holding the banks together. Old place, old beings. Being quiet here… the Dropt has an intimate & hidden charm, different from the majestic Dordogne with it’s mighty flow. Being quiet here & now…

No Space for Nature in the Countryside? Wendell Berry

Concernant la Destruction de la Ripisylve de la Riviére Dropt dans les Cantons de Villeréal, Castillonnès et Eymet. Le Dropt à St. Quentin (avant la coups de hiver 2011) oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm © adam cope I went downstream to the next commune to paint.Wild wood. Tangle wood. Quiet days dreaming besides…

Artists & Ecology 5 – Le Dropt, Castillonnès – une trame verte?

‘ Nyiad – Le Dropt à St.Dizier (avant les’ oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm 2010 © adam cope An ash tree growing out of the middle of an old crack willow, not coppiced for many a year. ‘ Nyiad’ Sketchbook pen & ink 2010 ©adam cope Wild Wood. Tangle Wood. Nyiad. Dryiad. River.…

Artists & Ecology 4 : Paintings of Potatoes – Semences – early still lives

Paintings of Potatoes Following on the walnuts, here’s some more brown, earthy still-lives. ‘Gardez vos Oignons, ce sont mes Patates’ 1996 Oil on Panel approx 24 x 23cm (9,5 x 9 inches). © The Artist. 150 euros via PayPal ‘Semence (Hommage à José Bové)’ 2001 Oil on Canvas 76 x 63 cm ( 30 x…

Artists and Ecology #2 – Robert HAINARD – how to ‘blind contour draw’

‘Hibou Effrayé’ Robert Hainard Bronze 32 cm Robert Hainard (Born in Geneva, 1906, lived a long time in the French Jura & died in 1999) is sadly not widely known outside of France & Switzerland. He is rightly considered one of Europe’s greatest ‘artiste-animalier’ (animal artists). His book « Les Mammifères Sauvages d’Europe »(Delachaux &…

Festival d’Art Flore Faune en Périgord Pourpre – Artists & Ecology

Here’s the details of the Fourth Festival d’Art en Périgord Pourpre. The opening night is at the mairie de Thenac on the 31 May at 19,30hrs. Expositions du 31 mai au 8 juin 2008 dans les villes d’ Eymet, Cunèges, Puyguilhem (Thénac), Saussignac et Sigoulès I believe I’m in Eymet at Le Centre Culturel with…

Artists & Ecology #3 : Constable, Corn & the Destruction of Hedgerows

72 x 34 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. sold   Constable’s ‘Cornfield’ While now a fresher gale, sweeping with shadowy gust the fields of corn – Text used by John Constable in exhibition catalogue, for his ‘The Cornfield’ in The National Gallery, London     John Constable, “The Cornfield”, painted 1826. Size: 56 by…