Garden Fruit and Vegetable Basket Painting Van Gogh Up close the layered impasto

Up close the layered impasto rewards a second look

A great ocean wave curls and breaks at the centre of this five-panel seascape

still water

its crystalline barrel curling overhead in a perfect spiral

sun-bleached grasses sway toward a band of green scrub and a soft

Garden Fruit and Vegetable Basket Painting Van Gogh Up close the layered impastoSet on a stone tabletop before a sweeping patchwork of rolling green hills, this exuberant composition heaps a wide wicker basket with the bounty of the kitchen garden. Glossy red and yellow peppers, ripe tomatoes, a crisp green apple, oranges, courgettes and bunches of pale and dark grapes tumble together, with leafy celery and a sheaf of orange carrots resting alongside. The colours are bold and saturated, every surface rendered with appetising