The Other Oeuvre: Grapes

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July 25, 2017

Still-Life with Water-pots - Painting by Sarah Myers

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Still-Life with Two Water-pots, Sarah Myers
Acrylic on canvas

My newest painting is a still-life with two water-pots - one holding small date-palm fronds – and between them a cluster of rich red grapes. The larger of the two vessels is a majolica piece decorated in happy, bright patterns; the smaller, with its dignified stance and deep terracotta colour, is pottery created by my sister Amy. Overhead, the sharp, fragile leaves of the palm reach out to embrace the whole – the two jars, a white wall, and the fruit tumbling forward toward us.

Still-Life with Two Water-pots, detail. Sarah Myers

Still-Life with Two Water-pots. Detail of smaller vessel.

Still-Life with Two Water-pots. Detail.

January 25, 2016

Large Still-Life with Pumello - Painting by Sarah Myers

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Still-life with Pumello, Sarah Myers

In this very large still-life are two warm red, earthenware vessels, hand-built by my sister, Amy Myers; around and inside the clay pots are fruit, dark grapes and an enormous, yellow-green pumello. The colour of the pumello is, as depicted in the picture, a bracing chartreuse; it is a plump fruit, ancestor of the grapefruit, with thicker rind and blander taste. It is slightly flattened, and for the painting's composition I actually propped it upright on the single grape you see under it to the right. The rest of the grape cluster, climbing from the earthenware bowl, fills the space left between bowl and the tall red pot. The artwork is acrylic on canvas.

Still-Life with Pumello, Sarah Myers
Detail

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Detail

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Still-Life with Pumello, Sarah Myers
Detail of grapes

October 15, 2015

Basket Bearer, Sculpture by Sarah Myers

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Basket Bearer, Sarah Myers
Stoneware

Sculpture, imaginary portrait, and vessel all in one, the Basket Bearer's tranquil quiet is changeless. With fruit in the basket-bowl balanced atop her head, she figures as a centerpiece expressing abundance and natural riches.

Basket Bearer in profile
Sarah Myers

Basket Bearer, detail

Basket Bearer, Sarah Myers

Frontal view

In profile

Basket Bearer
Sculpture in stoneware, Sarah Myers

May 11, 2015

Plenty - Drawing in Charcoal and White Conte

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Plenty
Sarah Myers, charcoal and white conte on grayscale paper

Allegorical portait, "Plenty", with wheat, grapes, loaves of bread and vine-leaves. This drawing is in charcoal and white conte on medium grayscale paper.

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Plenty, detail

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Plenty
Detail, basket

Grapes and Red Pears, Photography by Sarah Myers

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Grapes and Red Pears
Photography by Sarah Myers