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…

WIP : compositional sketch & tonal ‘notan’

WIP ….WORK IN PROGRESS – watercolour – a tonal ‘notan’……WIP I’ve been working on a large oil painting these last three weeks. A commission. It’s 130 x 81 cm – approx 51 x 32 inches. Bigger than my usual size. Good to be doing something different. A lot of work, which I’ll post as WIPs…

Recent paintings 2010 webpage

A Selection of Recent Paintings 2010 by Adam Cope Webpage update … always a good exercise to chose a dozen images. ” If the studio was on fire, which 12 paintings would you save?” (actually some of them are sold). Thank you for all your feedback & comments.

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…

Poplar Grove, Dusk

‘Poplar Grove, Dusk ‘ Oil on MDF panel 33 x 41cm (approx 13 x 16 inches) – 6 figure format francais © adam cope These groves of trees are planted not far from the river Dropt. All straight & square, they are grown for cardboard boxes. I like openness & airiness of the groves. Not…