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THIS UNSEEN GARDEN
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Farmlands of the Salinas River Valley
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Note: This is a work in progress. I am actively painting in the Salinas River Valley and plan to continue for the rest of 2025 through 2026. There are also a few large studio pieces planned on this subject.
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You stand on a country road in the middle of this valley and experience an expanse of space to all sides. Fields stretch out wide before you in every way to a distant horizon.
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It is an eerily quiet, open place except for the distant grinding of tractors and trucks and the haunting sound of an unseen locomotive.
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Dotting the landscape like little islands are old farmhouses. Many of these are no longer occupied but used as storage buildings surrounded by parked tractors, plows, and diskers.
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These old houses make it easy to picture earlier generations making their lives farming here. It is quiet, too. On a Sunday, one can park and paint on a side road, and only two or three cars will pass in two hours.
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“THIS UNSEEN GARDEN: Farmlands of the Salinas River Valley” is scheduled for Spring 2027 at the Art Council of Monterey County’s gallery in Salinas.
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