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Is a nude ‘Portrait Art’? Your thoughts please…
I think the Irish pub in Gaillac should be off limit to young innocent lads like me.
Sometime ago my friend Charles, le Counte de Noblet d’Anglure and I had a couple of late evening beers in Gaillac’s Irish bar O’Sullivans.
I returned the other eve, needing to get out of my studio and especially away from my computer. I was thinking I’d sketch out a new painting while having a quiet beer.
No chance.
The subject of winning. The subject was « Le jardin de tous les plaisirs », organised by the Médiation projets et publics Service Culture – Ville de Gaillac. There was some social excitement here yesterday, in Gaillac to be more precise. The prize giving for the photographic competition Concours Photos 2015.
Organised by MAIRIE DE GAILLAC, Service Culture, that is the Town hall of Gaillac; open to all residents of Midi Pyrenees. Two ‘divisions, professional and amateur, (Nouvelle ici en Francaise aussi). An ‘Art’ photographic competition. The professional prize was 2000 Euros for a project to be decided by the municipal service cultural. Nice idea?
Read more« Le jardin de tous les plaisirs », a photographic competition
Dear Sir, Madame,
For the past several years I have rented near Gaillac, the Tarn, Midi Pyrenees
I now wish to move nearer the sea, la mer est ma mere... so would like to hear from people in Southern Brittany and the Charante Maritime regions with a view to renting.
I’d like to connect with anyone one knows some one who wants to rent.
” ‘Tis not the gales but the set of your sails that determines the way you go.
It’s nearing time think of to weighing anchor, make sail; I would like to rent a property nearer the sea for at least a year.
The Port of Gaillac 1863 newly posted, a magnificent authoritative painting.
Text has many of the artists working notes and entertaining observations, over 10,000 words accompanied by many photos.
Researched over several years, there is a complex theme behind this marine painting, treasure, piracy, marine transport, pride, self defense, national interests, all and more compete in this tale. The loss of the “Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes”. measures 30 x 45 cms (12″ x 18″), oils, available, You can acquire this splendid painting via our Payment page or contact … Read more
A simple mistake on Paypal.
A disappointed customer who wanted one of our few remaining copies of “Spirit of Mystery“…
When making payment the woman in question omitted to leave her postal address & phone number when she ordered on the 07.10.14.
The Pyrenees, painting them, not all of them measures 30 x 121 cms (12″ x 48″). A while back I had to post in a hurry so the picture quality was not good. Here is a better image of this unusual picture painted to commission.
The “Bastide de Levi”.
Wine villages of the Gaillac region, France.
I just have given this painting a slight re working in my studio at Laborie mostly by adding a little more colour.