These wild boar use the hunters' lookout to see if the coast is clear.

Reservoir Ducks. Someone didn't read about the dress code before leaving home.

The great wines, floc and armagnacs of Gascony have been nurtured over the centuries by the super powers of the gascon vignerons.

Reproduced as giclée print in various sizes, some with mounts. 

Hunting, shooting and fishing are this Gascon's daily bread.   Shoot first, ask the neighbours for dinner afterwards. His white van, rifle and dog are never far away.

Reproduced as giclée print in various sizes, some with mounts. 

Got a question about life, mushrooms and the universe? Ask Super Papi. Comes equiped with creaky knees and his own pocket knife.

Reproduced as giclée print in various sizes, some with mounts. 

Like a real super hero, Mamie is the guardian of all that is good in the world. Especially her own recipe for foie gras. Her knowledge and experience will be conserved in a jar, while stocks last.

Reproduced as giclée print in various sizes, some with mounts. 

Traffic jams in Gascony. Life in the slow lane.

The autoroutes of gascony... beware of tractors changing lanes!

These chickens have a cunning plan to get to the kitchen garden unseen.

The plumber's bum. Burnt.

Organic wine, 100% natural and nothing added.

Vin bio. 100% nature, rien ajouté...

Foie Gras Blues played by a duck on trumpet. Inspired by the Jazz festival in Marciac, home to a great festival each August and to hundreds of duck farmers all year round. 

Reproduced as giclée print in various sizes, some with mounts. Also available on large-format canvas, as well as greeting card. 

A drawing commissioned by Plaimont as part of a wine label to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Pig.

The youngest generation wants to help crush the grapes.

A series of playing cards with a Gascon theme. Here, the suit Clubs has been replaced by grapes. 

The Queen plucks the fruit of the summer, ready to make wine.

A series of playing cards with a Gascon theme. Here, the suit Clubs has been replaced by grapes. 

A series of playing cards with a Gascon theme. Here, the suit Clubs has been replaced by grapes. 

The King of the vineyards prunes his vines before winter

A gascon playing card design. Not a poker face between them!

Motorway art. Modern art is quite confusing for many.

We all know ‘The Laughing cow’ cheese. It’s literally translated from the French brand ‘La vache qui rit’. This cow prefers frying.

At the Cannefour, one canardly believe the choice.

Les plombiers Landais.  (The plumbers of Les Landes)

Plombiers sounds almost like palombières, which are the huts used to hide while hunting wood pigeons (palombes) in Les Landes.

So, ‘Volaille’ means ‘fowl’, ‘vol’ means ‘fly’, ‘ail’ is French for garlic. So ‘Vol’ail  ! Easy, eh?

Ah, Nature, miles from everything…  no noise…  no stress…   hmm, no signal…

Porc de France. ‘Porc’ is pronounced with a silent c and rhymes with Tour

Dancing her way back from the market.

A little word play. ‘Mon Pote âgé’ translates as ‘My old mate’. but ‘Mon potager’ (which sounds exactly the same) means ‘my vegetable patch’.

Quille de neuf, or Quille d'un oeuf ?

Quille is a skittle game played in South West France, very similar to those played in the UK. The nine 'quilles' can be knocked down in different formations to win different points. These ducks have created their own version. I hope the egg is hard boiled!

In gascony, the time seems to go slower. More time to enjoy the pleasures of life.

To each their own task. 

These old rugby players have joined up years after their last match together. The old scrum-half feed them the beer as he did the ball, all those years ago.

Playing on the phrase ‘Elevé en plain air’, which means 'raised free range'. This happy duck is being raised in a Gers landscape. 

A fete lunch can take its toll, if one doesn’t pace onself. This chap has obviously had too much ‘apéro’, wine and armagnac.

This mushroom hunter is surprised that he feels rain… It is known that mushrooms often grow beneath the palombières in the trees. When a hunter has to go, he doesn’t waste time or reveal himself to the pigeons. We see grey cranes passing overhead en route for the corn fields.

The angel's share, or 'la part des anges' is the small volume of alcohol that evaporates while a spirit matures in the barrel. These gascon angels are making the most of it!

This chubby chappie needs all the help he can get to jump clear of the oncoming cow...

A tisane is an infusion, often herbal tea. This waiter is providing his happy customer with an armagnac, infused with the flavour and colour of the oak vat.