11th September 2010
Study for a commission painting..
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Study for a commission painting..
some serious melting going on here
une image “accident”, créée rapidement, dans l’instant.
les couleurs se mèlent sans lien apparent, l’oeil décide.
Why do summers have to be so hectic when you’re over 35?
Let’s have a glass of wine to reflect on this shall we? Oh and raise it to our one-hundredth-facebook-fan! 
more summer sketches & paintings to come…
5 paintings are on show at the annual exhibition held in the mairie. For the next two weeks they’ll be shown alongside 200 works by other fellow artists. Exciting stuff!!
A very civilized vernissage was conducted outside by the organiser Mr Dupuy, with kir and petits fours…
Another sunday, another painting competition, and YES, another prize!
This time the following painting of Sauveterre de Béarn is through to the Couleurs d’Aquitaine regional final next October in Montflanquin.
Good luck, little painting! Bonne chance !
Verre d’eau et sa coupelle (20cmx20cm) – Oil on Canvas
Bouteille de vin et son verre à demi rempli (2x20cmx20cm) – Oil on Canvas
4 heures à Navarrenx (40cmx50cm) – Oil on Canvas – Sold
I spent Sunday doing another art competition, this time in Navarrenx, with the association “Couleurs d’Aquitaine”. We got there at 12 and by four pm the entries had to be submitted.
My painting won the “prix spécial du jury”, and Esmée’s drawing of ‘La Maison aux Volets Bleus’ won 1st prize in the 4 to 6 year-old category. As a result she will be invited to take part in the regional finals for the whole of Aquitaine in October
210 explosions (80cmx60cm) – Oil on Canvas – Sold
Based on a sketch of Ben, lying in gardens of Laas on a sunny day.
He was fast asleep, so didn’t notice the explosions around him
The oil disaster (80cmx60cm) – For Sale
The kitchen (60cmx80cm) – Sold to Sim who loved this from the start
Below is the pencil version. Spot the differences!
Also known as ‘The Falling Man’
Fluidity, form, falling, movement, a bit of red, white and blue – A France that hangs propelled in self-struggle between the traditional and the contemporary, between optimism and grind – are we falling or flying?
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Vive la France?
Aussi appelé L’Homme Tombant.
La fluidité, la forme, la chute, le mouvement, un peu de rouge, blanc et bleu – Une France prise dans la rage intestine entre le traditionnel et le contemporain, entre l’optimisme et la lutte – Sommes-nous en chute libre ou en vol?
Vive la France ?
1,100 €
Lovers in Brussels (80cmx60cm) View in Shop →
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be the shelter for each other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be the warmth for the other.
Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before.
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Dried Rose (30cmx30cm) – Sold
When the rose is faded,
Memory may still dwell on
Her beauty shadowed,
And the sweet smell gone.
That vanishing loveliness,
That burdening breath,
No bond of life hath then,
Nor grief of death.
‘Tis the immortal thought
Whose passion still
Makes the changing
The unchangeable.
Oh, thus thy beauty,
Loveliest on earth to me,
Dark with no sorrow, shines
And burns, with thee.
I think its impossible to beat Jeff Buckley’s version of this song, where his singing genius met with the lyrical genius of Leonard Cohen. But as it is a song which has moved me so many times , I really wanted to have a go at doing a cover.
I am certainly not alone in this – records estimate that at least 200 different recording artists have done their own version, from the emotionally raw that runs fingernails down your spine to gospel fuelled X-Factor winning renditions that gets the whole audience swinging along to the ‘Hallelujah’ chorus.
Perhaps we all find ourselves in the ‘baffeled king’ or the person that ‘cut’ their partners hair as Delilah did to Samson – the humility of the song resonates to many among us.
Getting more and more into impasto…
Isadora-Madonna (30cmx30cm) – Sold
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Jean Cocteau
The most difficult life drawing subject has to be a child (keeps moving)