major website update 2008 I’ve been going boggled-eyed from spending days & days on the computer recently, doing a major website update. I hope you’ll find it worth a visit. Even if you’re not game for a painting course in rural France, the four-page section concerning the painting course itself is worth reading by students…
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A Prehistoric Shelter at Sergeac, Castelmerle, Dordogne
‘The Abandoned Cradle’ Watercolour. 43 x 36cm © The Artist. Take the footpath from Castelmerle towards La Conquil. Pass La Souqette, the Vézère way down below. These rearing cliffs, overhanging rocks, vertiginous. Wild. Our ancestors lived here thirty thousand years ago. Continous habitation. Now abandoned. Our abandoned cradle. ‘Notre berceau abandonée’.Today, a mute feeling of…
Norbert Aujoulat dessiné dans la style de la Grotte de Cussac
‘Norbert Aujoulat dessiné dans la style du Grotte de Cussac’ graphite A5 sketchbook © The Artist. ‘Norbert Aujoulat dessiné dans la style du Grotte de Cussac’ As portraits, my drawings don’t really resemble Dr.Aujoulat but, if you’ll excuse the mammoth pun, they’re OK as ‘on the hoof’ sketches…. ‘dans lou cochon, tout est bon ….…
drawing of a violin player
drawing of a violin player pencil A5 sketchbook © The Artist.
Sketches of a Wedding
A5 sketchbook pencil’Sur la Vif’ or ‘On the Hoof’ Sketches of a Wedding Sketches A5 ink brush pen A lovely wedding in the vines. Lots of cameras, so here’s one of yours truly. Note the champagne. [button color=”green” size=”medium” align=”center” link=”https://www.artists-atelier.com//piantings/music”]more gesture drawings of musicians[/button]
Cliffs in the Vezérè Valley – some photos
see a collection of artist ‘s photos of the dordogne
Exhibition at Les Eyzies, ‘World Capitol of Prehistory’
‘FONT DE GAUME’ (Les Eyzies) watercolour & ink A5 Sketchbook LIMITED EDITION PRINTS AVAILABLE, size A3 : 15 EUROS EXHIBITION – VÉZÈRE / CÉLÉ 12 SEPT _ 3 OCT 2008 L’OFFICE DE TOURISME – LES EYZIES I’m exhibiting at ‘L’Office de Tourisme’ At Les Eyzies, Dordogne. Les Eyzies has the nick-name of ‘The Prehistoric…
Moon Calendars in Prehistoric Art – ‘Meaning’ in Art?
Moon Calendar from Ice Age Europe? I took a photo of this prehistoric artifact at the Museum of Pech-Merle this spring, when they had an exhibition about the stars & prehistory. Regrettably I didn’t get the provenance (I think it might be a find from the Castel Merle grotte). It’s a ‘mobile’ portable artifact, which…
homo sapiens is homo spiritalis
good article in the new yorker concerning the prehistoric cave paintings here in the dordogne & elsewhere in sw france i particularly like the jean clottes quote: Homo sapiens is Homo spiritualis “You can advance a scientific hypothesis without claiming certainty,” Clottes told me one evening. “Everyone agrees that the paintings are, in some way,…
Sanguine Portrait of a Child
‘Sourire Toujours’ Sanguine Portrait of a Child A3 Hanhemaille ‘Nostalgia’ © The Artist. Been off holidaying with my wife & two young children. Family time. We went to Britanny, near Carnac with its standing stones (which really caught my boy’s imagination!) & its beautiful silver sand beaches. We stayed with some good old friends, a…