Oil Portrait Painting

Diego

Oil on Canvas/Huile sur Toile
50cm x 65cm

600€

In my oil portrait painting I am more interested in capturing every day life than in producing more traditional portraits. I like to look at things that move or interest me.

Our house overlooks Diego's vineyards, and you would not believe how hard he works. We once helped out with his grape harvest in exchange for fire wood. Just days before the harvest we had a terrible hail storm , with hail stones the size of golf balls that left our car covered in dints. This was nothing compared to what it did to Diego's vines. A sizeable proportion of his harvest was destroyed. A whole year's work - of twelve hour days - destroyed in about ten minutes. Agriculture can be a very hard life indeed.

The French wine market is in crisis and it is unlikely that either of his two sons will follow in his footsteps. It is hard to know what will happen to the landscape here - so much of it is defined by the vineyards. The local people are equally defined by their relationship to the land. In this portrait painting Diego is nearly as welded to the land as the vine that he is cutting. He is solid and productive. He doesn't want his sons to have the hard life that he has had, but what are we really losing as our connection with the land becomes ever weaker? Perhaps we lose this solidity, this sense of belonging to the earth that spawned us.

Our productivity is more and more in the realms of ideas, and our property more imaginary and intellectual than real and tangible. Perhaps we are collectively losing our sense of reality. A recent survey in Britain found that 42% of 16 - 24 year-olds had never been to a farm and many did not know that bacon came from pigs. The deputy farm manager of Vauxhall city farm is used to hearing parents tell their children that piebald ponies are in fact cows. Perhaps art has a place in facing some of these issues.

This oil portrait painting is currently available directly from me. Please contact me by e-mail if you wish to purchase this painting. I will need to know the name of the painting and the country to which the painting is to be delivered in order to check postage costs. I will then send you an e-mail with exact postage and packing costs. If you decide to go ahead with your purchase, I will then send a money request e-mail via Paypal. If you want to know more about my arrangements for postage and packing, please click buying an oil painting online. Please click currency converter to check the price of the oil painting in your currency. If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact me by e-mail or by telephone

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