Monday 11 February 2013

Dymock fruit trees

 Back in 1997 I painted a Dymock pear, plum and apple for Charles Martell, who makes artisan cheese
 in Gloucestershire.  He has sourced old varieties of fruit trees and is doing his best to preserve as many as he can on his farm near Ledbury.  He now makes a perry liqueur out of the pears.  This morning I went to his home to deliver another painting he commissioned from me, of Gloucestershire Black Kidney potatoes.  They are almost purple in colour but sadly on opening them, they were creamy inside, not purple as I had expected.  He let me photo the old paintings.  The photos have not come out too badly considering they were in their frames and I had forgotten how to stop the flash from working on my camera.

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