‘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…
Category: Prehistoric Art
A contemporary artist reflects on prehistoric art & caveart in south west France, such as Lasacux, Pech Merle, etc. Lots of drawings & paintings of the actual sites today.
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,…
Le Grand Roc, Les Eyzies, Dordogne
‘Le Grand Roc, Les Eyzies’ Oil on Canvas 86,5 x 76 cm ; 34 x 30 inches Tous Droits Reservés© The Artist. email me for details about how to buy What I enjoy about this place is it is a veritiable meeting of two different ‘styles’ of landscape (three actually if you count the busy…
Realism vs.’visions’ in Palaeolithic Cave Art
‘ The Valley Spirit’ 1997 Oil 56 x 76 cm – 22 x 30 inches © The Artist. Email me for details about buying this painting The Mind in the Cave by David Lewis-Williams “ How, the, did people come to make representational images of animals and so forth out of projected mental imagery? I…
Font de Gaume, Dordogne
‘Font de Gaume’ 2004 Ink & Watercolour. double spread A5 sketchbook © The Artist. Ne jamais dire “Fontaine, je ne boirai pas de ton eau” – Périgordien Populaire Font de Gaume is probably the most famous prehistoric painted ‘grotte’ (cave) in Les Eyzies (go abit further up the Vezérè & you arrive at Lascaux).It’s geography…
Pen & Ink-Leonardo da Vinci-Stone Lithography – Mythological Images from Prehistory
Second Posting of Two : Marcilhac sur Célé – Pen & Ink – How to Draw Rocks, Cliffs … & Comets??? – Leonardo da Vinci – Stone Lithography – Mythological Images PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART POSTING – How to draw rock & cliffs ‘La Vallée de Célé depuis La Croix de Renard’ 1996 Ink…
Marcilhac sur Célé – how to draw rocks & cliffs -stone lithography
First Posting of Two Posts part two, second post – Leonardo dea Vinci’s drawings of rocks ‘Postcard from Marcilhac sur Célé’ 1996 15 x 10 cm Stone Lithography © The Artist. Edition sold out. My Personal Experience of an Artist’ s Residency In 1996, I won an artist-in-residency to make limited editions of stone lithographs…
Grand Roc, Les Eyzies, Dordogne – UNFINISHED STATE
‘Le Grand Roc, Les Eyzies’ Oil on Canvas 86,5 x 76 cm ; 34 x 30 inches © The Artist. email me for details about how to buy wip = work in progress These great rock faces … huge cliffs …. they mark one ……… working on this slow large painting, over the last few…
La Gravette, Dordogne
La Gravette, Dordogne This is an old stone house built into a cliff face, ‘une maison souterraine’ (literally a subterrian house), which I guess is a better real estate address than ‘une maison troglodyte’ (a troglodyte’s house).It’s the next cliff face on from that of La Gravette in the Couze valley. Périgord…