30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. Post-scriptum 2009 : passed by this place yesterday & was saddened to see that many of the hedges & trees are no longer there. Grubbed out. Gone. they’ve gone mad the tractors & the chain saws aren’t enough the trees have gone now it’s the turn…
Category: Views
Paintings of views or with views as a dominant design.’Vuedetta’ landscapes, vistas and pleasant vantage points of south west France.
Chene, l’Herbe Haute & Grande Distance (Monmarves)
36 x 48 cm. Oil on Panel.© adam cope contact me for price Same landmark tree as before, this time standing in the high grass. Not dark till ten o’clock. Note that this is 36 x 48 cm & not 30 x 40 cm. It’s a classic french format, a 8 Figure, very pleasing. 8…
Vers Issigeac
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…
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’
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…
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…
Avec Vincent (aux pieds des Baux de Provence)
12 Figure (61 x50 cm). Oil on canvas. Ask for price. Some more rambling musings about ‘THE VIEW’ and previous painters…(thinking out loud but not sure where this is going). Famous views have been looked at many times (so therefore people recognise them). They have also been painted many times as well. Last september I…
St. Cirq Lapopie #2
Some things about this painting were niggling me, so this is now as far as i can take this image. Generally, about painting architecture in oils in small scale paintings, such as 30 x 40 cm…. difficult! At least,it’s a subject I’ve always preferred to tackle in drawing & watercolour. I find it easier to…
Vers Cunéges depuis Montlong
48 x 61 cm. Oil on Canvas. 2006. Ask for price. I was rooting around in my painting stock & dug this one out from last autumn. Always a bit of a jolt to redsicover old works. I’m getting ready for an exhibition ‘Festivale Flore Faune en Périgord Pourpre’ (Cunéges, 26 mai – 2 juin),…
Tournon d’Agenais (47)
‘La Tour’ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel. Tournon d’Agenais in the Lot & Garonne, from the valley. The spring greens are beginning to shine.
