Drawings
Iberian settings
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After milking in a gloomy cobweb covered shed at the top of Pitres in the hills of the Sierra Nevada, Paco makes his way to peg his goats out on a terrace above the village.
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Paco and his goats
56 by 37 cm.
Framed
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A focal point for life in the busy village of la Calera on the south coast of the little Canary island of Gomera.
Too small for cars to ruin.
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Blue Window.
Image 55 by 36 cm.
Framed
£295
The goats flow through this narrow street twice a day, their bells tonking a warning before they trip past.
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Goats in Pitres
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It's a long haul up the wide stone
steps to the wee humble cottages at the top. A surprise when you get just
those few metres up to the top, because it’s a totally different,
frugal atmosphere up there.
Above the Church.
Image 55 by 36 cm.
Framed 76 by 57
£295
Ochagavia is a superb little village in theSpanish Pyrenees.
As I drew these charming old bridges in the tiny Basque town, a woman threw out some scraps.
Offended that she was throwing rubbish into the stream, I was soon astonished to see huge eels thrashing around, gobbling her latest offering.
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Eels at Ea.
Image 55 by 36 cm.
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Ea is on the Northern coast of Spain, not far from Guernica.
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Well tended potato patches sheltered by the village. A joy to hoe along the rows and see the beans winding upwards.
The Pyrenees behind like a backcloth.
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Gardens at Ochagavia.
Image 55 by 36 cm.
Framed
Again, within the little village that nestles in the folds of the Pyrenees. A delightful example of real life, artistically captured.
Wonderful, wasn't it?
Such huge buildings and luscious damp woods in the isolated valleys of the Basque country. The painted trees in the woods above.
A far cry from the Costa del Sol.
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Haycocks and pigs at Oma.
Image 55 by 36 cm.
Framed
The background for these little summer gardens was the fortress-like buildings of Isaba, withstanding the snows and ice which push in on them each winter.
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Sticking the Beans.
Image 55 by 36 cm.
Framed
Isaba is a small but bustling town that lies on the road through the Roncal Valley on the way to France.
Having soaked in the summer sun, the fruit in fields and orchard everywhere are ready for gathering and eating.
Tough old boot. Salt of the earth. Still pushing her cart in Coja (Portugal).
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Woman with a Cart.
Image 55 by 36 cm.
Framed
Yet another "away from it all" setting where the drawing captures the very essence of the local ways - as they still were in 2001, at least.