"Barney Glade and His Contentments"

I love this painting and have refused to sell it. It is a symbolic depiction from my memory of my childhood. I made up the name “Barney Glade” to represent men of my Dad’s generation and the contentments in their lives.

"Barney Glade and His Contentments" Details

Original: Oil on canvas, framed, w50 cm x h60 cm

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The name "Barney Glade" came to me in a moment of inspiration along with my desire to paint cabbages. The idea of the cabbages came from the painting Watching the Cabbages Grow which was one of my first real attempts at this style.

Regrettably I don't have a good image but follow this link to check out Watching the cabbages grow. At the same time I painting Let's Talk which I don't have an image of at all but the composition was of two women of different cultural backgrounds leaning over their backyard fences talking.

I will paint some more backyards with cabbages one day when I get over my current obsession with brick buildings. Barney Glade's wife in the painting was a dear friend of mine who had an old photo of herself hanging out nappies and this proved to be the perfect pose for Barney's beloved hanging out his clothes. Barney was based on my Dad who loved his wife, children and his vegetable garden very dearly.

ORIGINAL: OIL ON CANVAS