Video: Pumpkin Wonders: Unusual Paintings at the Slindon Pumpkin Festival
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Pumpkin is rightfully considered the queen of summer cottages, because it has excellent taste and useful properties. However, in the small English town of Slindon, she is valued not only for these qualities. The annual Pumpkin Festival is held here, and the rich harvest becomes the material for creating whimsical pictures. Tourists from Germany, Japan and even distant Australia come to see the "melon miracles"!
The history of the festival goes back 44 years. One day, British farmer Ralph Upton decided to spread his rich harvest on the roof of a wooden shed for ripening. The bright fruits did not go unnoticed by the locals, so the next year he specially used the roof as a canvas, on which he created the first painting - a fresco of pumpkins and zucchini!
Gradually, an innocent joke grew into the work of a lifetime. From the 1950s until his death (2009), Ralph Upton grew pumpkins and squash, annually he planted from 15 to 20 thousand seeds of different varieties. And then, harvesting the harvest, he created real masterpieces! For this he was even nicknamed the Pumpkin King. The "artist" admitted that he did not know how to paint with a brush, but "melons and gourds" are easy for him!
The universe, pyramids or Venetian bridges - the themes of the works are varied, as is the flight of the artist's imagination. In the paintings pumpkin butterflies flap their wings and fantastic dinosaurs come to life. However, it should be noted that not only the British know a lot about pumpkins. All nations are submissive to love for this melon culture. So, the American Scott Cummins prefers to carve sculptures from pumpkins, and the Pole Přemislav (owner of the Calabarte art studio) knows how to turn these fruits into amazing lamps.
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