Olive Trees

Ancient olive tree at dusk, Canicattini Bagni, Sicily . Oil on linen, 10” x 10”. For some people, the Mediterranean conjures visions of white-washed stucco, tile roofs, and lemons. For me, it’s the uncanny azure of the sea, the quality of the light, and olive trees. It astonished me, in Greece, to see entire mountains covered with olive trees growing wild. In Sicily and in Greece, I encountered…