The Sower (canvas print)

Title:  The Sower.

Copyright:  © 2018 Dan Sullivan. 

Medium:  Limited edition giclée reproduction print based on an original painting of this name (completed 2015) by the same artist.

Materials:  Printed on high quality Hahnemuhle Art Canvas Smooth 370 gsm canvas, stretched over 40mm wooden stretcher bars.

Image Size:  51 cm x 40.5 cm (20" x 16"). All sizes approximate.

Canvas Edges:  4 cm deep, printed with ‘mirror wrap’ imagery to complement main image.

Released:  2018.

Signature:  Each copy is hand signed by the artist and sequentially numbered.

Edition:  Strictly limited to 50 signed and numbered copies.

Certificate of Authenticity:  A signed certificate of authenticity is supplied with every print purchased. 

I’m not a religious man but the Bible is a good place to find stories, and particularly the parables.

 The Sower has been portrayed by many great artists – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jean-Francois Millet, Vincent Van Gogh and John Everett Millais to name a few.

 Of course it is also an image used metaphorically, when for example we talk about scattering knowledge, sowing the seed, cultivating ideas or seeing our words fall on stony ground.

 So both the pose and the principle are incorporated into this jolly composition. Amid a wealth of (somewhat transparent) New Testament symbolism, the weary young teacher scatters on undaunted.

 I’ve done a bit of teaching, I know that feeling.