Pumpkins

My wife has a kitchen garden where she grows strangely shaped and vividly coloured varieties of vegetables. These are some rouge vif d’Etampes pumpkins which, as the name suggests, are redder than your average pumpkin. On winning first prize for them in the local show, she was a grinning triumph for days. Here they are immortalised. Happy Hallowe’en!

Rouges vifs d’Etampes, 61 x 41cm, oil on canvas, 2014

Pumpkins I, oil on canvas, 46 x 61cm, 2014

Pumpkins II, oil on canvas, 41 x 71cm, 2014

Pumpkins III, oil on canvas, 41 x 71cm, 2014

Pumpkins IV, oil on canvas, 41 x 90cm, 2014

Pumpkins V, oil on canvas, 41 x 61cm, 2014