Category: Photographs
Photographs, snaps & cliches from the pin-hole spy glass — a lens of things seen, artist’s reference photos
Einstein Walking Meditation
wanderer, there is no path, you lay down a path in walking. Antonio Machado (translated by Franciso Valera) Nobel Laureates in Physics Albert Einstein (left) and Niels Bohr (right) walking. Photo taken at the 1930 Solvay Conference in Brussels. Source: Danish Film Institute Photo: Paul Ehrenfest “Let a railway wagon be moving along a…
only tracks in the ocean foam
Wanderer, path there is none, only tracks in the ocean foam. Antonio Machado (translated by Franciso Valera)
Wanderer, the road is your footsteps
Wanderer, the road is your footsteps, nothing else; wanderer, there is no path, you lay down a path in walking. In walking, you lay down a path and when turning around you see the road you’ll never step on again. Wanderer, path there is none, only tracks in the ocean foam. Antonio Machado (translated by…
Photo-Bloggeurs de Sarlat
Here some photos of me drawing on the gallery door by the Sarlat photo-blogger Libiza. And here are some photos of me taken by another Sarlat photo-blogger, my long-standing blogging buddy Boguy. As you can see sometimes I drew on the street & other-times I hid myself behind a window . It was a real…
Back to Blogging
Been off-blog this last month teaching painting workshops & then exhibiting in Sarlat. Large back-lot of images & thoughts to blog (though already this has fled into the past & has lost the urgency of the here & now). More to follow in the next few days. Completely exhausted but happy. Took a few days…
Painting Holidays at Chateau de Beduer
‘The Painting Tutor’s Lunch Break’ Chris Sharland watercolour Chris loves what he calls ‘informal painting’, which includes lampooning the teacher 😉 I’m back from a two week teaching stint of one my Chateau Painting Holidays, France. BUT … I’m straight out again for a major solo exhibition in Sarlat! Busy times… I write in haste….…
Sunlight on a Sloe Bush on the Causse in Spring Time
Sunlight on a Sloe Bush on the Causse in Spring Time Not much changing in PS in this B&W reference photo. Thought I’d share it with you as most of you won’t know the Causses of SW France in springtime. Delocalising effect of internet. The sunlight is now bright but not as bright as in…
paleolithic cave art web page update
Three Page update to artists-atelier.com website:Prehistoric Cave Art – A Personal Response of a Contemporary Artist It’s siphoned off several entries in this blog. I gue”ss this blog is a kind of sketchbook for working out rough drafts & quickly getting ideas & text down in the work-a-day rhythm. I adapt well to the ‘chunking’…
Cliffs in the Vezérè Valley – some photos
see a collection of artist ‘s photos of the dordogne