Chien

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Charente, dog, French style

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Brisbane Water

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Australian landscapes, Brisbane Water, NSW

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

The Grasshopper Speaks

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Alpilles, grasshopper, immortality, Impressionism, memento more, Olive trees, plein air painting, Provence, Van Gogh

Van Gogh’s Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background, MOMA. Wikimedia

One leap!  I achieved immortality.

Those flickering olives absorbed his eye.

I chose my sticky end mortality.

He was focussed on that Provencale sky.

The Dutch would use my forebears as a trope:

insect as memento mori (foreground)

but into his painting I interlope,

en plein air, in one bold cicadic bound.

Over-looked for more than a hundred years

by many an art critic, with eye glass,

in the same way as Vincent’s own ideas

were unacknowledged by that dealer class,

now we have received our recognition.

In his painting, I made my impression.

Bass Blues

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2011, Charente, Cognac Blues Festival, double bass, jazz, music festival

@Cognac Blues Festival, 2011. Happy Days.

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Wish I Was There

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acrylics, balcony, bay, Dufy-style, fantasy, holiday, hotel, imagination, wishful thinking

Acrylic Painting by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Villebois-Lavalette

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Charente, French village, hilltop village, Villebois-Lavalette

Looking like porcelain.

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Point Leo 2

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Australia, beachcombing, flotsam, jetsam, Point Leo, rockpool, Victoria

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Point Leo, Vic, Australia

Beachcombing

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Australia, beachcombing, Point Leo, seaweed, sponge, Victoria

@ Point Leo, Vic, Australia. Wish I was there now!

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Bovine Bliss

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Broad Hinton, cows, rural idyll, Wiltshire

Wiltshire cows from Broad Hinton Hill

Photo by Candia

Sheepish

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Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, sheep

Feeling sheepish in Gloucestershire

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart