Brunello Dreams

By Barry Hammond

Oil on canvas

70 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm

Price on request

Meaning and visual impact:

You wake up in Tuscany and kind of half remember the great Brunello from the night before - not to mention the grappa. You then walk outside the Castello to find brilliant morning sun illuminating the colourful Tuscan landscape that you have seen many times before. You remove your Persols to get a better look. But wait- the sky is vanilla. The trees are impossibly trimmed to perfection. The fields are undulating with wild colours. The whole landscape seems almost psychedelic. Is this real or did I drop LSD in my coffee?

Technical aspects:

The painting was built up with many strongly diluted layers of oil paint to achieve the vivid psychedelic tones. The field foreground was painted with delicate brushwork to evoke winds blowing wildly through the grasses. There are too many realistic Tuscan landscape paintings in the world anyway so time for something different.