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Cedar May 20th, 2007

This painting is called “Ischian Vineyard.” It is based on a photo I took of a beautiful vineyard on the island of Ischia off the coast of Italy (pronounced “iss-key-ah” for those of you who don’t know Italian phonetics.) My husband and I went to Italy 2 years ago for our second honeymoon and to visit my aunt and uncle, who live in Verbania, a village near the Italy/Switzerland border, about an hour from Milan.

We got to spend a few days on this incredible island towards the end of our trip–the island comes straight up out of the sea, and it’s very dramatic, like mountains piled on top of mountains. They have these narrow roads that wind up and up and up like corkscrews. (There was one scary moment I remember when the bus we were on seemed like it was about to topple off the face of a cliff as it passed another bus going the other way with about a millimeter between them.) It’s a very precipitous place. We got a workout just walking from our hotel up the street for a couple minutes.

Anyway, this painting has nothing to do with all that (it’s just a pretty vineyard we passed by) but to give you some background info on the location, we were walking up one of those steep hills when we passed by it.

Ischian Vineyard
18″ x 24″

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