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…
Category: Artists and ecology
blog entries concerning artists engagement (or not) with ecology
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…
Vignoble & Orge, St. Dizier
30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. Post-scriptum 2009 : passed by this place yesterday & was saddened to see that many of the hedges & trees are no longer there. Grubbed out. Gone. they’ve gone mad the tractors & the chain saws aren’t enough the trees have gone now it’s the turn…
