Crane’s Peaches
11 X 14 inches, oil on vellum paper, 2025
This painting renders a sunlit orchard landscape through an expressionist lens, using saturated greens, blues, and ochres to convey vitality rather than botanical accuracy. The twisting trunks and fruit-laden branches are built with bold, gestural strokes, giving the trees a sense of weight, motion, and personality. Color is liberated from naturalism—cool blues energize the trunks while warm oranges and yellows pulse through the foliage—aligning the work with a Fauvist emphasis on emotional intensity and painterly immediacy. The scene feels less observed than experienced, evoking heat, growth, and the physical pleasure of being embedded in the landscape.