Friday, 12 January 2018
Painting in Montcuq - the first summer.
I went not knowing how long I would stay but I had a car packed with canvases and paints and enough books to fill in time when I wasn't working. Days merged into weeks and weeks into months and it was Autumn when I packed up the collection of paintings for the drive back to London. What a feeling! My summers from then on followed the same pattern, packing up the car with fresh supplies of paints and canvases and setting out in June to drive the 840 miles to the South of France returning in October or November with a new collection of paintings.
Start of summer. Oil on canvas. 2003
July. Oil on canvas. 2003
Boulevard de la République. Oil on canvas. 2003.
Evening. Oil on canvas. 2003
Rue Droite. Oil on canvas. 2003
La Tour Montcuq. Oil on canvas. 2003
August. Oil on canvas. 2003.
Montcuq. Oil on canvas. 2003.
La Canicule. Oil on canvas. 2003.
Thursday, 11 January 2018
One Day in May.
Loves Story
I do not love thee
So I'll not deceive thee
I do not love thee
Yet I'm loathe to leave thee
I do not love thee
Yet joys very essence
Comes with thy footstep
Is complete in thy presence
I do not love thee
Yet when gone I sigh
And think about thee
'Till all the stars die
I do not love thee
Yet thy handsome ways
Bring me in absence
Almost hopeless days
I cannot hate thee
Yet my love seems debtor
To love thee more
So hating, love thee better
John Clare
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