Tomato Time

For many years now summer in Nashville includes an August weekend festival to celebrate the all inclusive tomato, bringing together fruits AND vegetables. Read all about it HERE.

For one very sweaty weekend, thousands gather in East Nashville for music, parading, ART, crafts, food, and general mayhem.  Roads are closed, stages are set, booths filled with creative stuff line the streets, and a beautiful gallery opens with so many tomato paintings it boggles the mind. And since the honored tomato is a uniter and not a divider, all the other vegetables and fruit show up in paintings as well.

Here are my three pieces accepted into the 2025 Tomato Art Show...all three were set up as still lifes that I painted from, including "Tomato Girl" who was inspired by discovering a two-legged carrot in a produce package and adding a lettuce skirt, onion face, and mushroom eyes,  complete with raisin pupils and red leaf lettuce lashes. She's a cutie!

Tomato Trio 12x9 Oil on Panel, framed

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Tomato Girl 9x12 Oil on Panel, framed

Tomato Jar 6x6 Oil on Deep Canvas

Thanks for reading! And happy, sweaty summer!!