English Bramleys, Oil on Panel, 6 x 6 Inches

Oil on Panel 6 x 6 inches

This painting is on a rigid Ampersand Tempered Hardboard Panel - acid free and archival.

I was with Luc, our eldest, at the farmers’ market the other day and happened on an apple seller. All he had was five or six different varieties of apples.

They were all beautiful. Lumpy, oddly shaped, all different sizes - real apples, not the sanitised supermarket variety. Some of them even had leaves still on them, which I discovered some time ago is a compositional gift - and again, one that the supermarkets don’t supply.

Luc and I picked out a bunch we liked that still had leaves on, which must have piqued the apple seller’s curiosity. When I told him I was going to paint them, he said “Here’s the deal: They’re free, if you post the painting on my facebook page.”

And that’s how these two beautiful bramleys ended up in my shadow box.

This was one of those paintings where I spent ages setting it up and deciding how to paint it (literally, days) and then painted it quite quickly. Sometimes they just go right.

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