Van Gogh regularly painted the wheat fields of Provence, with thick bold brushstrokes which reflects the motion of the wind blowing through them. For him, wheat was a symbol of the eternal cycle of nature and the transience of life and probably the reason we so enjoy visiting the Overberg in different seasons driving through luminous greens and yellows or an assortment of reds and browns, peppered with bales of hay.
It was another beautiful day. In the early light, the strong wind blew the clouds over the fields accentuating the topography and where I could isolate lines and shapes in the landscape with my 400mm lens to create cameos of abstracts designs in the sun-drenched wheat fields.
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