oils seed rape lioness
oil on canvas
300mm x 300mm
private collection
Lioness
Although the oak has been a native of England since just after the last Ice Age, the crops in the paintings are all new varieties developed for modern, industrial-scale farming. Lioness is a winter-sown conventional, as opposed to hybrid, variety of oil seed rape developed in Germany.
Information, Dr Laurence Sim (Agronomy)