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Olivo nel Campo Olive Tree with Farmer's Field of Greens  Acrylic Painting Nature
Detail of black olive tree branches with olives and with a yellow leafed tree in the background... impressionist style artwork
Painting detail of rows of rape plants in many bright greens.  In front of that is the trunk with a hole in it and hanging branches of olive leaves with tiny black olives.
The original painting was painted on a pre-gesso 'd piece of primed wood, but not the 50 x 70 cm of the board.  Intended to (and did) cut off two edges of the original painting.
detail to show the curves and romance of the brush-strokes giving an impressionistic idea of the olive tree in Tuscany, Italy
Olivo nel Campo Olive Tree with Farmer's Field of Greens  Acrylic Painting Nature
Olivo nel Campo Olive Tree with Farmer's Field of Greens  Acrylic Painting Nature
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  • Load image into Gallery viewer, The original painting was painted on a pre-gesso 'd piece of primed wood, but not the 50 x 70 cm of the board.  Intended to (and did) cut off two edges of the original painting.
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  •     Acrylic on Wood Panel   ~~  SOLD  July 2023
  •     45 x 60 cm (23.6 x 17.7 inches)
  •     Private Collection, Virginia

Ulivo nel Campo [Olive Tree in the Field]

    I started this portrait of an olive tree just after I passed the written part of the Italian driver's license exam.  I found that exam a challenge [that has lasted most of 2018 as I tried to get over the language barrier] and this painting was a great stress-release and 'welcome back to work' celebration.

     I have always had a spiritual connection with trees.  My mother would always look outside and up when it was time to call me home when I was a child.  I would sit in the trees for hours, quietly thinking, observing, listening.  The olive trees, at least in Tuscany, have such unique shapes and twisted, gnarly branches and sometimes even torn and hollowed out trunks that they have always seemed like individual personalities.

     Maybe it is true that nearness breeds fondness.  I have watched the trees here, this one in particular, over the last several years, especially when I was carving stone in the same spot where I stood to make this painting.  It is lovely how the sun passes over the silver-grey-greenish leaves of an olive tree.  Rape is growing in the field [campo in Italian], shown in the background.  A seasonal, yet now dried creek is behind that campo.  The trees growing up around the creek bed are causing an area of shadows.

     This acrylic painting was created on a wooden panel with two coats of gesso vero [true gesso].  I hope that he finds a good home.

Peace,


Kelly Borsheim, artist

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