Russian River Rhapsody

Jack Stuppin's Sonoma country, painted in 2011: a violet mountain under a bank of white cloud, orange hillsides, and vineyards laid out in striped rows of purple, yellow, teal and black, every field outlined in red. A small red-roofed farmhouse sits among the trees and a pale river bends round the bottom corner.

The striped fields more or less sort themselves; the cloud and the sky above it are one long stretch of near-white. Finished size 68.5 x 50.8cm.