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With The Harvest, artist June Carey returns to the location
of her sell-out fine art edition Lost in a View. Inspired by
the hills surrounding Florence and the Castello di Verrazzano
Chianti region, the painting marks the warm fall days of the
Tuscan grape harvest in late September and early October. Working
farmers of all ages, men and women wearing their long aprons,
gather at the edge of the field, laughing, talking and sometimes
singing. They then go out with great purpose and energy, carrying
their red buckets through the seasoned vines which are heavy
with deep blue clusters of grapes. Cypress trees surround the
ancient walls of the buildings that mark the home of wine cellars
since the twelfth century.
“I bought one of the red grape harvest buckets to use
as a prop in the paintings. At the vineyard, the workers eyed
my camera with suspicion and curiosity. I held it up and yelled
‘Artista di California. E' bello!’ They laughed among
themselves and went back to the harvest.” |