Food painting
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/ From the Series-At The Market-”Folk Art Style Melon”. Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas… In Benidorm there are melons, / Whole donkey-carts full / Of innumerable melons, / Ovals and balls, / Bright green and thumpable / Laced over with stripes / Of turtle-dark green. / Chooose an egg-shape, a world-shape, / Bowl one homeward to taste / In the whitehot noon : / Cream-smooth honeydews, / Pink-pulped whoppers, / Bump-rinded cantaloupes / With orange cores. / Each wedge wears a studding / Of blanched seeds or black seeds / To strew like confetti / Under the feet of / This market of melon-eating / Fiesta-goers....Sylvia Plath.
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/ From the Series-At The Market-”Avocado”.... Acrylic on Canvas…heavily textured tactile background…. I AM AN AVOCADO Through forty-seven years / I have remained green; / Though my skin / is tough and wrinkled / it wears a sheen and lustre / that bears the hues of / resiliance and change. My fleshy substance puzzles: / Am I savoury or sweet? / Delicious or non-descript? / And with or without texture? But the stone / at my centre / is massive; / the heart of me / is huge / and inpenetrable – / out of all proportion / to my fruit And what is it / that comes from there? / What legacy will remain? I must take care / what seeds I sow / for whatever comes from / this heart’s core / will reproduce / the same / after its kind. And others will reap / the fruit / of my harvest Let me leave / no bitter taste; / Better sweet avocado / than acid bitter Aloes....Kate Burnside
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/ “Night Pears” is part of the Series “Simple Abundance” and the Series “Pears” and is also part of my main portfolio... _Simple Abundance”, is a metaphor for living…all the paintings in this series, though they can be interpreted literally, represent abundant life_…it is based on the book by Sarah Ban Breathnach by the same name… Watercolour on 140lb Arches Paper.. “Be generous!.... Give to those you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate – yes, give especially to those you don’t want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have!” W. Clement Stone /
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“Lemons” is part of the Series “Citrus” and is grouped with “Red Grapefruit” already posted here…. These larger than life fruit in the Citrus series celebrate not only the fruit, but texture…Maurice Dennis in discussing art said that “composition is more important than subject matter”, and that is often true of my work…I am more concerned with how the work is done, than what is portrayed..by now you know I do a varity of series, and that for me, nothing is too humble to be painted…Janis Watercolour on Gessoed Arches Paper From blossoms / released / by the moonlight, / from an / aroma of exasperated / love, / steeped in fragrance, / yellowness / drifted from the lemon tree, / and from its plantarium / lemons descended to the earth…Pablo Neruda / / /
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/ “The Pink Circus” is part of the Gallery collection in my website “The Journey”... Acrylic on Canvas…original is for sale… Remember when the Circus was magic? We were so young then. “The Pink Circus” poem is at once a fantasy and a metaphor for life..... / On the surface, it’s a nostalgic memory of childhood days when everything seemed “in the pink”.....at least that’s how I remember it, and that’s why, after I did the painting, I wrote the verses….. / From the pink dresses we wore to the endless strawberry ice creams, life was a dream…....an endless pink circus. It’s also part of the “Journey” that we are all on.....the words can be used to interpret any situation from your own lives. / _The “Clowns” you deal with now are probably quite different, and St Paul in Corinthians told us long ago, to “put away childish things”. / Many dreams have fallen by the wayside along with old loves, but sometimes we need some of that old enchantment, to get us through the day. The words can be also interpreted literally..... / Most of us were taken to the circus when we were young… and as children, we were entranced by the excitement of the big ring, the painted faces of the clowns and the pleasurable terror of the trapeze. / _In the end we grew up, but every so often we need just a little bit of the magic of the Pink Circus. / Those were the days, when the Pink Circus came. / Bells ringing loud, Balloons with our names. / Rivers of Pink Juice, Mountains of Jam / Oh! where are the days, when the Pink Circus came? Those were the days when the Pink Circus came. / Clowns in a row, all painted to go. / Apples on Pink Sticks, Lakes of Pink Cream. / Oh! where are the days, when the Pink Circus came? The days of the Circus, have gone from our lives. / Pink shoes and Pink love, have withered and died. / We’ve pulled up Pink Covers and buried them here. / Pink memories remain to show they were there....“The Pink Circus” by Janis Zroback /
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/ “Bella Toscana” is part of the Series “Fruit” and is included in the portfolio of works on canvas….it is reminiscent of an old poster celebrating that wonderful area of Italy, known for its landscapes and its artistic legacy and it’s “Cities of Art” (Florence, Lucca, Pisa, Siena, San Gimignano, Cortona, and Pienza... Acrylic on Canvas… /
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/ Red Pear” is part of the “Fruit Series” and follows on “Bella Toscana”..all these single fruit portraits have a different treatment and are painted in different media... The viewer is asked to forget conventional seeing that will rob the subject matter of it’s uniqueness in shape, colour, and outline, and look at it, not just as a painting of a pear, but as something more….I chose to do Red Pear with a brilliant red background that gleams softly and shows it to great advantage Acrylic on Canvas… Some say / it was a pear / Eve ate. / Why else the shape / of the womb, / or of the cello / Whose single song is grief / for the parent tree? / Why else the fruit itself / tawny and sweet / which your lover / over breakfast / lets go your pear- / shaped breast / to reach for? Linda Pastan /
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/ “Going Bananas” is part of the Fruit Collection...more than what the eye can see…other selections below.. Acrylic on Canvas…original is for sale… We all need to eat the bananas / That are sitting on the counter / In the kitchen in the white bowl / With a delicate filigree of blue / Pinstripes, two of them, on the / Rim where the tips of two of them, / The bananas I mean, are jutting over / And starting to turn from pure yellow / To brown and yellow with a cluster / Of spots on each flat of the fruit / That tomorrow will be connected / With a fine filigree of brown lines / Linking them, and, after that, / Well everyone knows what happens, / All the fingers will be pure brown / With the hidden, soft pulp under / The skin jutting out and swollen. excerpt David King / /
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/ “The Basho Tree” is part of the new Collection called “Tropics”, and is named after the famed poet Basho.. / The Tropics collection of paintings are imbued with colour and light to reflect the intense heat of the climate... Watercolour on Arches Hot Pressed Paper.. Matsuo Kinsaku was a Japanese poet who changed his name to ‘Basho’, after he was presented with a wide leafed banana tree (or Basho tree) by one of his disciples. Although the tree is rare in Japan and the climate too cold for it to bear fruit, Basho liked it because of its large, soft leaves. The Basho tree appeared frequently in his work. Poetgraves Squalls shake the Basho / tree – all / night my basin echoes rain. Matsuo Basho /
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/ “Aftermath is part of the Tropics and Abstract Collections...Watercolour on Arches Hot Pressed Paper..see others below… Alone afterward, she was to remember the grasses, long, wet, and tangled from the night’s downpour, bent bodies, and heads bowed as though in prayer, still veiled with the silvery reminders of what seemed to have been the anger of the gods…. / As they lay huddled in the only shelter left to them she had asked him “What will remain?” / Now as the sun rose higher, burning off the last vestiges of the rain, she remembered his silence. Janis Zroback / / 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.
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/ “Down Amongst The Sugar Cane” is part of the Tropics and Abstract Collections... Watercolour on Fabriano Artistico Hot Pressed Paper.. Down Amongst the Sugar Cane… / It lies hidden, secret, waiting… / Sleep ridden, quiet, pensive… / Striped.. by Janis Zroback / /
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This painting was created today to Illustrate the poem by Sara Teasdale…see my writing pages…A Winter Night My window-pane is starred with frost, / The world is bitter cold to-night, / The moon is cruel, and the wind / Is like a two-edged sword to smite. / God pity all the homeless ones, / The beggars pacing to and fro. / God pity all the poor to-night / Who walk the lamp-lit streets of snow. / My room is like a bit of June, / Warm and close-curtained fold on fold, / But somewhere, like a homeless child, / My heart is crying in the cold. Watercolour on Fabriano Paper…
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/ “Avocado at The George St Market” is part of the portfolio collection and illustrates a short fiction thriller in my writing pages…the original has been sold…Acrylic on Canvas. Friday morning at eight o’clock. George St Market is a whirlwind of colour and movement. There is more noise and bustle today, than on any other day of the week, and hawkers seem to be at their loudest on this shimmeringly hot day. Stalls are... Read More *here of this short fiction thriller by Janis Zroback...
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/ “Ambrosia” is part of the Gallery collection from my Portfolio...Acrylic on Canvas….Three ambrosia apples on a Fantasy Landscape background ...more of the collection below… Since it’s winter, I used teals and greeny blues in this landscape…cooler colours to echo the time of the year, but the bold red and yellow tones in the Ambrosia apples, bring a feeling of warmth, like sitting cosily near to a fire. When the painting was completed, I saw the Etruscan towers of San Gimignano echoed in the landscape, so the poem “he and the Hilltown” seemed very appropriate. And then the topmost square with church or water towers / a dance of bustling shops and sparkling language banter / and every crevice cranny bosoming out with flowers / a busy-ness of purpose and a heart’s enchanter / (the sun distributes gold – allows the blood to saunter) / the bricks of buildings glow with centuries of nous / as though the wisest grape best pours from this decanter / both tempered peace and passion welter in its throes / and fountain sprays refract what such life knows. / Rg. Gregory…..he and the Hilltown / / / /
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/ “Yesterday’s Dreams” are part of the series The Trees and is the first part of a set of two...Watercolour on Sennelier Paper..see part 2 Here Yesterday’s dreams / Like birds in the winter / Have gathered together / And flown to the sun / Yesterday’ s promises / Like shells in the ocean / All shattered and broken / Like yesterday’s dreams. N.Mouskouri.
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/ “Zaboca” is part of the Tropics Collection...Watercolour on Fabriano Artistico Paper…Zaboca is colloquial for avocado… Late season again.. / Frost tipped, green.. / But still ripe for the picking.. Janis Z.. / / / / /
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Silk Painting inspired from a trip to Venice. Featured in All Things Italian Group .Featured in Dimensions Group / Featured in JPG Cast Offs
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/ 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)
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/ The latest addition to the Still Life and Textured Collections, “Still Life with Plums” like all the others is painted in a similar style, in watercolour, on pre-textured Arches Paper…..see more from both collections below…a quick trip to my earlier pages.. Apples, pears, and plates / never move or talk back.. / slow, long, arduous work / balance form with form.. / color with harmonious color / portraits absent of emotion and personality… / nothing is more than a / conventional geometric starting point, / obsessed with unfulfilled / passions.....Cezanne / / Pears, Grapes and a Single Plum / / Figs, Pears, and Nuts / / Still Life with Citrus / / Cheese with Fruit / / Homage to Cezanne / / Still Life with Melon
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Aficionadoes of the delightful Mma Ramotswe will know exactly what I mean by the title of this painting….to the those who aren’t, I urge you to delve into this wonderful series of books…you’ll get hooked like I am…for a faster fix, watch it on HBO.. Watercolour on Saunders Not Paper…part of the Tools and Still Life Collections.. 268 Views / Still Life with an Awl / Still Life with Picture Wire / Enigma..A Still Life
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The title of this abstract painting is a play on words…”Salad Days” in popular parlance refers to our youth, days of carefree life, romantic, joyous, free from responsibility…but the painting in it’s impression of a single lettuce leaf, is also a celebration of the joy of the coming season…salad days…. / I love the challenge of painting food as an abstract work…I used various types of watercolours, including the powdered metallics, to give me the effects I wanted to achieve…the veins of the leaf explode with vibrant reds and oranges, while the edges glitter with copper and gold…the feeling is of crackling heat and light….the vibrance and energy that comes only with youth in our “Salad Days“ / A Single Lettuce Leaf
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My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree / Toward heaven still, / And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill / Beside it, and there may be two or three / Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough. / But I am done with apple-picking now. / Essence of winter sleep is on the night, / The scent of apples: I am drowsing off. / I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight / I got from looking through a pane of glass / I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough / And held against the world of hoary grass. / It melted, and I let it fall and break. / But I was well / Upon my way to sleep before it fell, / And I could tell / What form my dreaming was about to take. / Magnified apples appear and disappear, / Stem end and blossom end, / And every fleck of russet showing clear. / My instep arch not only keeps the ache, / It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round. / I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend. / And I keep hearing from the cellar bin / The rumbling sound / Of load on load of apples coming in. / For I have had too much / Of apple-picking: I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired. / There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch, / Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall. / For all / That struck the earth, / No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble, / Went surely to the cider-apple heap / As of no worth. / One can see what will trouble / This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is. / Were he not gone, / The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his / Long sleep, as I describe its coming on, / Or just some human sleep...After Apple Picking Robert Frost Watercolour, Acrylics, Mixed Media on Arches Not Paper 18×20 FEATURED IN BITS AND PIECES
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Mixed Media works are often deeply personal to the artist, and at first glance appear to be a random collection of drawings, doodles, collaged materials, printing etc…if the artist has not provided any hints as to what was in their minds at the time, it can be somewhat frustrating…my favourite MM artist is Nick Bantock and I admired him for years without ever having a clue to what he was trying to say…I just loved the works for themselves…now that he has written about his ideas and methodology I appreciate his works even more…one thing he said which stayed with me, was that an MM work must have meaning, even if it can be felt only by it’s creator…random bits of things stuck to paper, just won’t resonate…an MM piece has to be well thought out before hand…they take time to create, sometimes much longer than a painting done in the regular way, as they are a reflection of the artists’ thoughts, feelings, and emotions about a particular subject or idea…then you have to collect your materials, do sketches if necessary, and begin to arrange the materials in a way that would express what you want to say, but that would also be pleasing to the viewer..e.g.the overall design is as important as the colours used..all must fit the theme that expresses the artists’ point of view.. “Wishing” is a grown up sentiment done through the eyes of a child’s simple drawings…the wish for the innocence of childhood to return…the rice bowl which in the centre shows our need for food to sustain life, the pear and apple shapes which symbolize abundance…. the snippets, in themselves representing a mosaic of life, but also showing images of childhood, and writings about the things we loved like going to the cottage, flowers, stars, etc…the background is rough and uneven, dark, but with patches of light, shapes are emphasized to show their importance and lastly the colours are those a child would naturally gravitate towards.. / I have a collection of MM pieces already in my gallery here, (see samples below) and I’m now adding to that series.. Mixed Media on Arches Not Paper… Linen paper, Schola Gouache, W/N Gouache, Egg Tempera, Watercolour sticks, Oil Pastels, Watercolour Markers, Watercolour Paint, Collage Materials, Acrylic Mediums No more lives torn apart / That wars would never start / And time would heal all hearts / And everyone would have a friend / And right would always win / And love would never end / This is my grown up Christmas list K. Clarkson / Nature Layered with Texture / The Layers / Words and Images / Pear Journal / Escape is not an Option / Words / The Cover / Pear Journal
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