Onions

30 x 24"     Oil on Linen

In portrait painting the artist often does his best work when he is painting his friends, so too in still life painting. These onions came from my garden. I was there when they went into the ground. I pulled out the weeds that grew up around them and watered them when it got too dry. I watched as their tops grew from spindly to tall and strong. When those tops began to weaken I pulled the bulbs from the ground and brought them into my studio to dry. I've known these onions their entire lives. Onions is not so much a still life as it is a group portrait of old friends...