plein-air painting – Le Cingle de Limeuil, Dordogne

  ‘Le Cingle de Limeuil’ Cingle = meander in the river Dordogne at Limeuil. ‘Le Cingle de Limeuil’ Oil on canvas 65 x 54cm (approx 26 x 22 inches). © The Artist. sold The above painting is plein-air, painted on location, on the spot   looking down from the steep scape slope, buzzards flying up on…

La Dordogne à Lalinde 2 – L’Eau et les Rêves, Gaston Bachelard.

‘Ilots, La Dordogne à Lalinde’ Medium Size Oil on canvas x 40cm (approx 30 x 14 inches). © The Artist   I was born in a country of brooks and rivers, in a corner of Champagne, called le Vallage for the great number of its valleys. The most beautiful of its places for me was…

Brambles

  Ronces Oil on MDF panel 41 x 33 cm (approx 12,5 x 17 inches) © Adam Cope A session in the studio repainting this plein-air piece. Red & blue, no? Ronces (fr) = brambles (en) I like brambles a lot for their vigour & pioneering life-force. This was an over-grown patch by an abandoned…

Path at the End of Winter

cornus = dogwood This path at the end of winter, lined with oaks. Red dogwood suckers. Life surging back into the landscape. painted this in one session, reduced me to tears… all prima large oil painting in plein-air, yeaa! alla prima = first take