“Turnips from Farmers Market”
Watercolor, unframed
14.5" wide x 22" high

Candy Matthews is a renowned watercolor artist of plants, food, and flowers or her home garden and larger place in Northern California. Her work is featured in local businesses, hospitals, and private collections around the North State, and her work graced the cover of Edible Shasta-Butte many times.

Candy's colors, forms, and nature-based graphic realism take everyday arrangements of farm, field, flower, and fresh-grown food, and elevate them to the heroes they actually are.

This larger-than-life semi-graphic realism style painting of farmer's market deep red turnips is no exception: surprising, bright, beautiful, healthy, and tasty.

Any kitchen, pantry, office, studio, or well-appointed garden room will be enlivened by a Candy Matthews!

From Candy: 

“My saturated hand mixed watercolors are inspired by my surroundings, especially my community farmers market. So many local fruits, flowers, and vegetables from which I draw color and inspiration.

I have drawn since I was a young girl, when my family lived in the Philippines and northern Africa. My earliest memories were of the markets and souks brimming with life – the people, smells, sounds, and brilliant colors. These countries provided me with imagery that I use today.

I am fascinated with the play of shadow and light. My backgrounds are made with layers and layers of hand-mixed color. I paint mainly still life and gather my subjects from my surroundings: compelling and colorful plants, animals, foods.

I frequently paint at my kitchen table; the rectangles and squares of vivid colored backgrounds that often delineate the main subject in my paintings are echoes of our kitchen’s window pane patterns.” 

Candy Matthews

You can find out more about Candy's art and garden life at: 
https://candymatthewsart.com/
or on Instagram: 
https://www.instagram.com/candy_matthews_art/