Dan Civa
16 artworks by Dan Civa (Selection)
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Inside and outside the house I have good place for creating new art works, enjoying the hundred of birds that I' ve made many bird boxes for.
Every morning I take a walk in the chestnut plantation where all my inspiration is transfered into my motifs of chestnut trees. Every tree and every branch has its own sculptural form that fascinates me. The trees are full of life and seems dancing. As a colorist, I enjoy to dress parts of these trees with my own happy colors. They make me thinking about Van Goghs olive trees in the south of france.
Chestnut is a beautiful brown hard nut inside in a hard shell. When the chestnut season start in about March, people, also children, come to pick up the chestnuts from the soil to brake off the shell. They can make good money according to how many kilo of chestnuts they manage. Sometimes children comes in the early morning, before the schooling, and pick up chestnuts before the day turning into hot weather.
Middleman persons driving around with trucks to buy the chestnuts for bringing the harvest to chestnut factories, where they produce delicate chestnuts for jam, dessert, cakes and more.