All the delicious delights and colours of beautiful Tuscany painted in a stylish, colourful, lively composition.
Celebrating the Gloriousness of Big Girls and Big Cakes. Painted in the Spring of 2007 The original of this painting is 20”x20” and is now owned by a private collector. (I retain all copyrights) Visit my Online Art gallery
oil on canvas / 2006
2003 / oil on canvas
100×80cms – fabric/string/oil on canvas / The stalk and the leaves protrude from the canvas
“Red pears with Ewer” is part of the Blue Series...image painted from early sketch…provenance unknown… / See others in the Series below… Watercolour on Gessoed Arches Paper… My beautiful ewer, pleasant and elegant, / In the world of today who can find the like? / Everyone who sees it says ‘It is very beautiful’. / No one has found its twin because there are no others like it. / Glance at the ewer, a spirit comes to life out of it, / And this is living water that flows from it. / Each stream which flows from it into the hand / Gives each hour new pleasure. / Glance at the ewer which everyone praises; / It is worthy to be of service to such an honoured person as you Ancient poem… / / / /
/ “Simple Abundance..Peaches” is part of the Simple Abundance Series...inspired by Susan Ban Breathnach’s book “Simple Abundance” and the abundance of Fruit and Vegetables available in our markets…....see more from the series below…originals are for sale.. Watercolour on Arches Not Paper… Featured on the Home Page There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace. ...Bourke Coekran / / /
/ “Bamboo Night is Part of the new “Tropics” Collection... Watercolour on Fabriano Artistico Hot Pressed Paper.. The aura of bamboo grove by night is charming to behold, / The moon peeks thru the leaves painting the grove in silhouette and silvery shadows, / The trees resonate with the heartbeat of romance, / Each knot feels like the ladder to advance to the higher level of ecstasy of love. J.Narain.. /
/ “Fandango” is part of the new Collection “Tropics”.. the coconut tree in hot colours, temperature and mood, close-up…inspired by the Latin Dance the Fandango, with music by the Gypsy Kings… Watercolour on Fabriano Artistico Hot Pressed Paper… Dance a light fandango / Take me ‘round and ‘round / Dance a light fandango / Never let me down Steve Miller Band Gypsy KIngs Baila Me (I danced) / Fandango (The Dance).. /
/ “Imagination “is part of the series “The Trees”, all the seasons together, inspired by the Green movement, and painted in Watercolour on Arches Hot Pressed Paper..see others below The tree which moves some to tears of joy, is in the eyes of others, only a green thing that stands in the way. / Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. / But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. / William Blake, 1799, The Letters* / / / /
/ “Hibiscus Morning” is part of the Tropics Collection...mornings on the island, the Hibiscus opens early…breakfast on the terrace with the warmth of the sun, feels so luxurious with all the blossoms cascading down, in their multitudinous shades of brilliant colour ... Watercolour on Arches Hot Pressed Paper… Sequestered in their wiry pods, / the hibiscus opened last night after a long silence. / While we mimicked stones in our shared bed, / the big lusty blooms burst into being, / half-human and full as the moon. We practice avoidance this morning; / a marriage of papery faces nods in the sun / ox-blood, pearl and the pink-throated one, / their enviable tongues already discovered by the bees. J. Wallace /
/ “Segmented is part of the Portfolio Collection...a metaphor for the stages of life…Acrylic on Canvas… Dreams broken to pieces on sharp jagged rocks of life / Thoughts sometimes restored, sometimes gone missing, life / Friends now close, swept away on a tidal wave of life / Hope crushed by words, restored by a smile, renewed life / Family for some there, for others gone, a lonely life / Faith missing in action, now found, renewed hope, life / Dreams, thoughts, friends, hope, family, faith / Pieces of life, pieces of you, pieces of me, life in pieces. L. E. Truitt / / / / / / /
/ “The Two” is part of the Winter collection..Watercolour on Fabriano Artistico Hot Pressed Paper.. And it all comes crashing down, / as the leaves fall. / when the barricade sets in, / and when the blinds close themselves, / that’s when the colors shift, / and feelings drift, / to a place we don’t know. / to a dream we no longer recognize, / as it screams for second and third tries. Turn around. / you won’t see me. / won’t hear me. / won’t touch me or feel me. / but I’m still there, / reaching out to you. / Is it all in vain? xXjadedjunaXx /
/ “The Sentinels” is part of the Winter Collection... we barricade our doors and guard our lives every day, but storms come and go regardless of locks…so we pray for the sun, and cry relief relief!! Watercolour on Fabriano Artistico Hot Pressed Paper.. / Home Page Feature Natures Wonders, Everything Winter features, plus five more…... They stand as sentinels against azure storms / Assured as most storms of life, it’s supposed / Although bared of dress, although naked as jays, / Winter’s trees umbrella from worst those / Emptied of warmth.. why stand themselves here? / None rest beneath, cold is this grayness / Determined, enduring Hail’s hiss, they stay / Limbs upturned, beg the sun from her shyness… / These brown-barked sentinels recall blue-green days before / With soft nests of down in lofty leaved reaches / Where bodies under there sparkled in prisms / When leaf-scattered-light danced on now barren benches.. / They stand as sentinels against azure storms ...Barbara Attaway / /
/ “Yesterday’s Dreams 2 is part of the series The Trees, and is the second of a set of two..Watercolour on Sennelier Paper…see part 1 Here You are my harbour / My dream of tomorrow / My promise of sunshine / My shield from the storm / My sweet companion / We’ ll journey together / And not be defeated / By yesterday’s dreams
/ “Jacob is part of the Tropics collection...Watercolour on Cartiera Magnani Acrilico Paper.. Jacob came into the night, riotous with colour, proud and straight, wearing the emblem of leader…newly endowed ... Janis Z.. / / /
/ “The Two” is part of the Flower Collection...Watercolour on Sennelier Paper… You are the town and we are the clock. / We are the guardians of the gate in the rock / The Two / On your left and on your right / In the day and in the night, / We are watching you. We’re afraid in that case you’ll have a fall. / We’ve been watching you over the garden wall / For hours. / The sky is darkening like a stain / Something is going to fall like rain / And it won’t be flowers. This might happen any day / So be careful what you say / Or do. / Be clean, be tidy, oil the lock, / Trim the garden, wind the clock, / Remember the Two. W.H. Auden
/ “Maria’s Cherry” is based on the photos of Maria Medieros ...as with the other collaboratioons seen below (click on each image to go to the original page), I did my own interpretation of her Red Cherry .... Watercolour on Sennelier Not Paper…Featured in The Fringe and Live Love Dream Said to be / Red / Sweet / With seed / Once in a lifetime / Treat / Firm / Ripe / So certain / Like love / Then lost / Forever* J. Spahr Summers / / / / /
Bon Appetit (self-portrait) / 8” x 10” Acrylic . / Sushi was definitely part of this inspiration. / . / .
I was experimenting with water and food colouring in my DIY studio at home. I put drops of the dye into the water and then quickly focused before the dye sank to the bottom. I also used thin white plastic with a light behind it to bring up the vivid colours. After viewing this in my digital darkroom I flipped the image just for fun to give it another dimension. It sort of looks like flowers growing up out of the ground.
Late October…it had been a cold summer and we hardly hoped for any fruit, but the old stone wall had been kind as in years past, keeping the warmth of the sun in it’s bones, so that the pears grew fat and juicy, hanging so low, we had to tie them to prevent them from falling…then suddenly it was winter and we ran to gather them in…visons of pear jams, compotes and chutneys urged us to hurry before a frost set in…they felt good in the hand, plump and juicy….stored in the root cellar, they will take us through to spring...excerpt…The Old Pear Tree..Janis Zroback WAtercolour on Arches Not Paper
Wrap them well…wrap them in lace.. / These delicate fruits of mother nature’s bounty… / Coddle them in secret, soft and silky.. / Lest in the darkness they bruise and blacken… / Throughout the chill season, unwrap them gently, / Savor their goodness, slowly, so slowly, / The first bite is best, but the last just as good. / Still in the dark feast on the goodness.. / Oh what pleasures we take for our own! ...Janis Negative Painting in Watercolour on Arches Hot Pressed Paper / Espalier
“As autumn returns to earth’s northern hemisphere, / and day and night are briefly, / but perfectly, / balanced at the equinox, / may we remember anew how fragile life is — / human life, surely, / but also the lives of all other creatures, / trees and plants, / waters and winds. May we make wise choices in how and what we harvest, / may earth’s weather turn kinder, / may there be enough food for all creatures, / may the diminishing light in our daytime skies / be met by an increasing compassion and tolerance / in our hearts.”....Kathleen Jenks, Autumn Lore Watercolour on Arches Not Paper
A new addition to the Tropical and Food Collections, this painting is a tribute to the juiciness of the fruit…unlike my previous renditions of the Papaya, this is painted with much fewer details and has a relaxed feel to it, which is more in tune with the tropics...it is also part of the Sepia and Gold colour collection See the entire Tropical Collection..HERE Watercolour with Pen and Ink on DrawMaster Paper “They grew like giants in our backyard / in Cuba, thin, ravenously thirsty plants / that bore fruit every spring, first as small / as pears, then the fruit swelled to the size / of footballs, their communal weight / a clumped burden on the whole plant— / only my father knew for sure when to cut / them down, bring them inside the house, / in the kitchen he sliced them, these toothy / smiles, teeth like black goblets, a volcano’s / ashy tear on leaves, sweet, delicious, these / fruta bombas, as my father called them. / For years while we lived in Los Angeles, / he couldn’t grow them in such a dry climate, / but when he moved to Hialeah, Florida, / he harvested them once again, brought / them upstairs under his arms, a smile”..excerpt..V. Suarez …
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