The bakery, Hand painted with Oil on canvas / Thank you for looking. / Ken LePoidevin
In his sumptuous exploration of food images (Food in Painting), Kenneth Bendiner states, that ” food for the art historian can be the one area where conscious rules and dignified ideas need not hold sway - the real urges and concerns of a painter or his society can rise to the surface. There’s a certain freedom in the margins of art - where experiments and indulgence can operate—in other words more can be learned about someone from his backyard, than from the street façade of his house.” The latest painting from the series” Delicious” is “Scone with Berries and Cream. The Berries are a type of black berry, available all year round here… Watercolour on Arches Paper…Featured in Happy Haven… I grew up in a society where tea time was sacrosanct… dashing into the house after school, at four o’clock in the afternoon straight to the table which tea was laid, was an everyday thing… the weather was hot and the tea was refreshing… after several cups, one felt at peace with the world. Clotted Cream came from England in jars or tins but my mother also whipped up a wonderful cream from the top of the milk that came straight to our home from a neighboring farm every day…dinner was much later on in the evening ... You and I are great souls. / And we come together for a time. / We meet over a cup of tea here on earth. Shall we leave our shell and join with each other? / Shall we put down our shield and armor? / What will become of us if we do? / What horrible fate awaits us if we are defenseless? Tea is a time for love and tenderness without fear. / It is a time for sharing and learning and growing. / Come now, leave the battle gear behind. / Brave with me and let’s have tea. E.Grey Watercolour on Arches Paper.. One day through a half-shut gate / in a courtyard, there among the trees, / we can see the yellow of the lemons; / and the chill in the heart / melts, and deep in us / the golden horns of sunlight / pelt their songs* The strawberry is rough like a slave’s arduous life / Vermillion, green, and fuzzy like an inscripted pathway / It tastes like the first candy bar in a child’s life / It looks like a cold soda on a hot summer day / Sounds like the Sirens decepting voice. (Click images to link) Blueberries as big as the end of your thumb, / Real sky-blue, and heavy, and ready to drum / In the cavernous pail of the first one to come! / And all ripe together, not some of them green / And some of them ripe! You ought to have seen ...
/ Strawberry tart is the second in the series “Delicious”... Watercolour on Sennelier Not Paper… In the description that accompanied “Blueberry Tart” I referred to the work of a famous American artist called “Wayne Thiebaud”, who stated that his subject matter came out of a genuine experience from his life, from the American world, in which he was privileged to be. He went on to say that it was the most genuine thing which he had done. His subject matter is a commentary on the abundance that is a part of American society and the longings and desires ( e.g. all those cakes in a row) that go along with it. Like Thiebaud, this new series is definitely a reflection of my particular experience… it is at once a commentary on the richness of our culture and at the same time a reflection of my daily life… in addition to being a painter, I spend a lot of time in the kitchen… my belief is that since I have to cook to feed my family I had better do it well, (I have an abhorrence of wasted time), so to that end I have almost as many cookbooks as art books, in fact I have a collection of several hundred cook books… I have mentioned before, that there is a peacefulness, a feeling of rightness when I sit down to paint food… although all painting brings me pleasure, there is a special joy when I paint food… it is as though it is what I was meant to do ... The strawberry is rough like a slave’s arduous life / Vermillion, green, and fuzzy like an inscripted pathway / It tastes like the first candy bar in a child’s life / It looks like a cold soda on a hot summer day / Sounds like the Sirens decepting voice J. Macgregor / (Click image to link)
/ “Lemon Curd and Blueberry Tart” is part of the “Delicious” collection..Watercolour on Arches Not Paper… Featured in Light in the Darkness…. This new series is definitely a reflection of my particular experience… it is at once a commentary on the richness of our culture and at the same time a reflection of my daily life…food is essential to life…suffice it to say we can’t exist with out it ... Painting food has a long history and according to Kenneth Bendiner in the comprehensive “Food in Painting”, is a separate classification of Art…He “underlines the central importance of 16th century innovations in food subjects and the great influence of 17th century Dutch art in the development of food imagery”. / He explains, with examples of paintings by the likes of Rembrandt, Chardin, Manet, Warhol and many others, how “food images can be purely symbolic, surrealist, and an element in allegories…he also shows the optimistic, human centered Renaissance spirit of food painting, and the way abundance, success and fulfillment pervade this art”. “But the illusion fails, and time returns us / to noisy cities where the blue / is seen in patches, up between the roofs. / The rain exhausts the earth then; / winter’s tedium weighs the houses down, / the light turns miserly—the soul bitter. / Till one day through a half-shut gate / in a courtyard, there among the trees, / we can see the yellow of the lemons; / and the chill in the heart / melts, and deep in us / the golden horns of sunlight / pelt their songs”. excerpt…Eugenio Montale / / (Click image to link)
Coffee for two, with ginger cupcakes from Tempt.
Really getting into this combination of two great interests!
Stack of sugar cookies on a lace paper doily.
My local bakery has some delicious treats to sample and this day I thought ‘think pink!’ Featured in Still Life and Food Photography Winner of the Not a single iving thing challenge in the In the Pink group
April 2008 – Westfield, NJ
A bakery found on our way from Beirut to Jordan
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Chalk out line of a gingerhomicide- crumbs and 1 chocolate button are present in the scene. Who did it? Who could be next….?
Acrylic On Canvas(Original Sold) Concept: Keep our imagination delicious so that we will always go back for more…and more good stuff can hopefully spring forth from there. /
The Beechworth Bakery at Beechworth in Victoria, Australia.
This shot, taken during a OCAU meet up at a train yard lent itself to a dark and foreboding shot here The Title is from a song from “Press Play on Tape” about a man devoting his love for the Commodore 64! Edit – SOLD! / To the art lover in the background as a Medium Canvas print!
Glasgow Series #3
Grand piano cake on a musical background.
Bakery at Sacred Heart Mission This is one of the only buildings to survive the great fire of 1901, which destroyed the monastery complex. This structure is made of native sandstone, its cornerstone is dated 1881. It is a three story structure with a basement. It was in this bakery where the sisters baked 500 big French loaves of bread each day. The mission had the Indian Advocate, its own publication, printed in the bakery building. Published from 1888 to 1910, it was a quarterly review, then a monthly magazine. The Advocate was aimed at an audience of friends and supporters of the Catholic missions to the Indians as well as Indian students and members. You can also see another photo of the bakery in Fishlady77 folio. / “Bakery”:http://www.redbubble.com/people/fishlady77/art/1506326-1-whats-left
Tip for an awesome breakfast in Graz: the Hofbackerei Edegger-Tax, in Hofgasse, a bakery founded in 1569 Featured in All Things Pubs on July, 2009
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Old Bakery
This is a little bakery in the Triploi Medina in Libya. The bread was hot out of the oven and Delicious! The smell was also awesome. / . / ! http://images-3.redbubble.com/img/art/border:blackwithdetail/product:mounted-print/size:medium/view:preview/666779-1-gharyan-ancient-pottery.jpg!:http://www.redbubble.com/people/craigshender/art/666779-1-gharyan-ancient-pottery / . / / . / / . / / . / / . /
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