Painting titled "Loquat Tree" by Gideon Nel, Original Artwork, Acrylic

Loquat Tree Painting by Gideon Nel

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Original Artwork Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

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Original Artwork

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Dimensions Height 86.2in, Width 59.1in
Categories Paintings under $20,000

First in a series of tree paintings; Set against an ominous sky this lone Loquat tree stands in a green field bearing fruit. Juicy delicious fruit. A young boy dressed in red t-shirt and blue shorts is leaping up to pull some of the trees bounty off for himself. There is a certain freedom and joy to what the boy is doing, and accentuated by the fact the tree is in an open field where anyone is free to enjoy the act of eating fresh fruit from a tree.
Painted in strong brush strokes the sky, though grey omits a light strong enough to make distinct shadows back lighting the boy and the tree. In the distance is one other tree alone on the hillside. The inspiration for this painting was sitting in my yard in Portugal looking at the fruit on my Loquat tree and remembering my days in Africa when walking through the fields and coming upon a Loquat tree and refreshing myself with it’s succulent fruit, the memory of the sweet / tart nectar on a hot dry summers day refreshing me until I reached home.
Nostalgic and lyrical this large canvas always surprises viewers and evokes sweet memories of their own.
Inserted is a detail of the Loquat Botanical pedigree. The leaves, with fruit, a cross section of the fruit and the flower along with it’s botanical name Eriobotrya japonica. For me this was a deserving tribute to the Loquat Tree.

Related themes

Energetic Life Fun Romantic Lyrical

Gideon Nel

Portugal

Born in South Africa 1951. Studied Fine Arts Painting at the Pretoria Art School. Graduated and started his career working for his mentor, Hans Potgieter, South African Kinetic Artist for nearly a year, until a job as Art Director in a local feature film became available. Three months later joined the SABC TV and did a BBC TV training course for 9 months, learning all aspects of television, cameras, sound, editing. Seven years of editing and started directing documentaries and TV commercials. Always painting when possible as the hours in TV were long and hard.
In 1990 came to Portugal to do a film and was invited to stay and work.
In 2000 had my first one-man exhibition in Portugal a series Story Boards consisted of 10 paintings acrylic on canvas (150 x 219 cm)

Followed by my product launch of ZEN, peace in a can. 1,000 (limited edition) cans of ZEN with large canvas of Buddha (70.9 H x 82.7 W IN) featuring a levitating can of ZEN.as well as 6 individual paintings of ZEN cans in different colors and languages (39H x 39W IN).

The next series was products and public service announcements. Durex Pleasuremax 20 (70.9 H x 82.7 W IN) a large Raphael inspired group of nudes in a tropical setting followed by Vespa Scooters and Red Star Coffee both (59H x 86,5W IN) Followed by Kill every motherfuckingbugandcreature in your garden, a fictitious product against pesticides in general a PSA for Save the Rhino’s and one for Conservation.

The latest series on Government Warnings consists of four canvas’s currently and a 5th is being painted. The first was Watch 19.7 H x 15.7 W, followed Red Star Beer 65 H x 25.6 W, Lipstick 49.2 H x 25.6 W and Relationships 39.4 H x 47.2 W. all acrylic and vinyl on canvas.