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Italian Tomato Press
On days too hot to paint en plein air in Italy I painted this wonderful old tomato squeezer machine at the studio. It's upside down, of course, but I loved both the shapes of its various parts and the negative spaces around them. I'm sure I'll paint this again.
ITALIAN Tomato Press, oil, 38 x 39.5 cm (15" x 15.5")
© Fergus A Ryan, 2013 Collection Fergus and Sarah Ryan