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Red and Green Pears by Sam Askin

This painting is an ode to my 7 year old daughter. I could paint a still life of fruit for no reason other than it is enjoyable and looks great (which it does!), but why not have some real feeling and meaning to it?! As most parents would know, children change their food preferences regularly. Over the past week, my daughter has flipped from loving green pears to hating them, loving all kinds of apple to only red ones, loving bananas to hating them (only at school), loving grapes to hating them, and loving rockmelon to hating them. This painting shows the sad decline of the red pear – which was a new and exciting alternative to green pears and red apples at one stage – and the re-rise of the green pear to finish off the week. The painting shows the deteriorating state of the red pears amidst the proud, shiny, ripening green pear in the fight for a place in my daughter’s lunchbox. May the red pear’s time in the spotlight never be forgotten… maybe one day, like the green pear, it too will have another chance.