Painting Description

Using watercolour and pencil crayons, I painted a character study in combination with a landscape. It seemed to me appropriate to place this figure in this setting. I didn’t feel that placing a Mennonite farmer in a formal portrait would be sympathetic. Just a note: the man pictured here was part of a splinter group of Mennonites that wear beards. All other Mennonites are clean shaven. Since 1990, almost all of this group have left Waterloo County for farms around Gorrie, Ontario.

This image is available for Licensing. Contact Cynthia [email protected] for inquiries.