The Padre´s Vineyard, MASTERWORK CANVAS EDITION June Carey
Image size: 46"w x 16"h.
Edition Size:300
Published from the artist's original work.
US: $750.00
"I researched The Padre's Vineyard for five years," June explains. "I feel a deep connection to the timeless sense of life that still echoes from the historic walls. After collecting many black and white photos and books on the mission's architectural history, I felt brave enough to attempt to recreate a real sense of this peaceful place as it looked before the town swallowed up its walls.This view of Carmel's San Carlos Mission, as it appeared during its renaissance of the early 1900s, imagines the Padre's wine grapes happily tethered on a sunny slope overlooking the mission.
"Mission grapes were developed by the Spanish Padres that arrived in the 1700s for mission wine they still grow today.The missions were self sufficient, supporting not only themselves, but their many converts.They grew all their own food, raised livestock and, of course, they needed the Holy Wine!"
Vineyard Tankhouse, MASTERWORK CANVAS EDITION June Carey
Image size: 48"w x 24"h.
Edition Size:300
Published from the artist's original work.
US: $850.00
Tankhouses are as romantic a vineyard visage as the rows of grapes themselves. There’s a whimsical charm surrounding the old vineyard tankhouses with their angled walls. Long before piped irrigation, farmers pumped water from shallow wells using a windmillpowered pump that would force the water up into an elevated tank. Gravity would then provide the water pressure necessary to irrigate the fields.The open space under the tank tower was often enclosed to provide either shelter for animals, as a tool-shed or even a spare room.When piped water became available, the tankhouses were no longer needed.
Although many of these have been torn down, enough tankhouses still dot the landscape to maintain the flavor and magic of our wine growing past. When choosing subjects for her wine country landscapes, artist June Carey selects vineyards with distinctive regional character or ones that appear to have been cultivated by families for generations. Vineyard Tankhouse was inspired by the vineyards of Alexander Valley and combines a favorite subject of the artist with the low warm light of the end of day.
