30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist.SOLD For the first time this year, painting to the accompanying sound of an orchestra of cicardas. Alll the pleasant memories of summer resurfacing. High temperatures over fields of tall grass, their mauvey-pink heads of seeds swaying in the gentle eveing breeze. Bands yellowing wheat & white…
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EXPOSITION – Mai des Arts, Bergerac
Bergerac Waterfront #2 36 x 46 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. sold Je expose au ‘Mai des Arts’ à Bergerac ce dimanche 13 Mai. 10 – 18 hr. Alors, aux pinceaux les artistes exposants dans les rues et aux achats et bon rencontres les spectateurs.
Vendanges – Journée Ensoleilée (finished state)
‘Vendanges – Journée Ensoleilée (finished state)’ 81 x 44 cm. Oil on canvas .© adam cope SOLD
Terre Rouge, Printemps – QUERCY
‘Terre Rouge, Printemps’ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. available terre rouge (fr) = red earth (en) The red earth again, this time making a startling tapestry with the fresh, bright green growth of spring. For more about the iron mars red soil, see previous post ‘Terre Rouge, Appelation de Cahors’
Vendanges – Journée Ensoleillée (Unfinished State)
81 x 50 cm approx. © adam cope Another painting from my ‘cuvée vendanges 2006’. Needing to finish off my larger paintings for this year’s exhibitions, which are fast approaching. All the teaching to be done as well… tempus fuigit. repainting an oil painting – finishing an oil painting This is a slow painting, which…
Fauvist Barns 1 : Muted Red & not Heightened Colour – American Fauve Barns, Wolf Kahn
‘Sechoir à Tabac’ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. available Old Tobacco Drying Barns The South West is where most of France’s tobacco is grown. This is an old drying barn (sechoir), not far from my house. In these types of barns, alot of work goes on, as the leaves are hung…
Saule
30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel. ©. Sold. High grass, bluey tints, another ‘vieux tetard’ (coppiced willow) here in St.Dizier. the right size for plein-air painting Nice to be swinging the brush around again in a more natural way (natural to me, that it is), after having made the mistake of trying to fit…
Château de Biron
30 x 40 cm. Oil on panel. One of the exceptional things about the South West is the sheer density of history. You go out for a drive, and not too infrequently when you turn around a corner, you see a huge chateau or a crumbling medieval church or a house built into a cliff…
L’Orée du Bois
30 x 40 cm. Oil on panel. Back in the green Dordogne. Hot day. Much photosynthesis. High grass, the farmers all busy with the cutting of hay.
Avec Yvés (aux pieds des Baux de Provence)
Watercolour. Quarter sheet Arches. The view in landscape painting Just carrying on with my rambling musings about ‘THE VIEW’ and previous painters… Same view, again from September last, this time in a different medium. Walk the hills with my ‘confrérès’, other fellow artists who have painted the same landscape, the same paths & the same…
