Tonality : ‘Avec Nostradamus ( La Nuit de Temps commencant à la Fontaine de St Rémy)’

 ‘Avec Nostradamus ( La Nuit de Temps commencant à la Fontaine de St Rémy)’ Watercolour, Arches, quarter ‘jesuit’ sheet. © The Artist. 300 euros I didn’t paint this watercolour last week, as I was very busy teaching one of my Painting Holidays au Chateau de Lanquais, France night-time plein air This watercolour was another of…

Notan Photograph – ‘The Wirly Gates’

‘The Wirly Gates’ 2004 © The Artist. Notan can mean something/nothing as well as dark/light Notan photography? Is the black emptiness? Photography has difficult of reading things in shadows. It frequently makes pictures with black nothingness as shadows… These digital cameras are great for ‘visual thinking’ … working things out in a visual way… kind…

Notan : ‘La Maison Peyarade, Bergerac’

‘La Maison Payarade, Bergerac’ Encre Chine. Tous Droits Reservés I’ve been following some the talk about ‘Notan’ over on Katherine Tyrell’s blog, so I thought I’d post this three-tone drawing. Not quite a Notan I know, as it’s not flat enough. Has perspective & depth rather than flat pattern. I decided to try however to…

Fauvist Barns, Heightened Colour…Vlaminck & Kandinsky

this is the second post of ‘fauvist barns’ ‘Sechoir à Tabac’ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel © The Artist available  anti-fauve barns Just updating the post  ‘Sechoir à Tabac’ (it’s about the above painting) in which I chatted about ‘anti-fauve’ barns ….trying to keep a barn door rusty brownish red, rather than letting…

Blé en Dordogne

‘Blé & Chemin, Boisse’ 33 x 41 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. sold path through the corn in the sunny dordogne didn’t walk along the tractor tracks, no wish to damage the farmer’s crop enchantment an invitation

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…