some watercolours from last autumn in the Célé valley. Vertigo? Impossible blue sky but true… yes true deep blue with only free wheeling birds 🙂 The blue sky that envelops us all… that evokes a sense of freedom in me 🙂
Category: Watercolour paintings
Watercolour paintings from south west France, Dordogne & Lot. Mostly plein-air, colorist, wet on wet, calligraphic & expressive.
Watercolour of Spring in the Dordogne
This Candlemas morning (“festa candelarum”, the festival of candles), there was the first ray of sunlight after weeks of heavy rain. The light is again high & strong. I’m yearning for spring & fresh air & sunlight. This watercolour from March last year. Hope that February won’t be rude or glacial! It can be freezing…
Watercolour of a Lotus Flower
This was the last lotus flower of 2013 that I saw on the lotus pond. Somewhat battered by the winds & cold nights here in the Dordogne. But still offering up its golden heart, despite of it all. I love the life cycles of flowers. Yes they reach apogee, perfection then deteriorate, disband, fall apart.…
Vignobles, Dordogne 1
‘Vignobles, Dordogne 1’ watercolour 28 x 38 cm (approx 11 x 15 inches). © The Artist. sold This autumn is particularly sunny. Blues skies, the leaves have stayed on the vines longer than usual. A winey golden glow, a haze hangs over the hills. This painting from a few weeks ago, now the leaves have…
Lime Grove, Chateau de Beduer
watercolour 15″ x 11″ Early moring, brightearly summer sunshine, see the leaves glowing green-gold. [button color=”green” size=”medium” align=”center” link=”https://www.artists-atelier.com//piantings/trees”]paintings of trees[/button]
pssttt! – don’t be scared of green!
Homage to green – the green fuse , the living green, the vernal green , the green that oxygenates us & lets us breathe fresh, clean air. When I painted these green watercolours the air was so beautiful with fragent green sappy smells. 🙂 [button color=”green” size=”medium” align=”center” link=”https://www.artists-atelier.com//piantings/trees”]paintings of trees[/button]
into the sunlight (contrajour) vs. sunlit from behind in watercolor
‘Gateway, Chateau de Beduer – contrajour’ watercolor 30 x 40cm (approx 11 x 15 inches). © The Artist ‘Gateway, Chateau de Beduer – sunlit from behind’ watercolor 30 x 40cm (approx 11 x 15 inches). © The Artist.Same gate, different lighting. Not just a cloudy vs. sunny day but the light in front of you…
La Dordogne à Beynac 2
‘La Dordogne à Beynac 2’ Aquarelle 28 x 38 xm (approx 11 x 15 “). © adam cope number two of two paintings see painting number one “the light’s changed…”
La Dordogne à Beynac 1
Aquarelle 28 x 38 cm – approx 15 x 11″ © dam that cope number one of two paintings see painting number two late afternoon light, pale winter, white glinting reflections on the black river
River Dropt 2 – Wendell Berry on Local Care of Shared Places
15 x 11″ – 28 x 38 cm Tanglewood. A bird song corridor through an empty land. Sluggish shallow river. Old roots holding the banks together. Old place, old beings. Being quiet here… the Dropt has an intimate & hidden charm, different from the majestic Dordogne with it’s mighty flow. Being quiet here & now…