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Delightful Summer Fruits, Vegetables & Herbs

  • sarah816202
  • Aug 5
  • 2 min read

Summertime in Britain wouldn’t be complete without the delicious bounty of fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Juicy strawberries, sweet cherries, and fragrant raspberries are perfect for enjoying fresh or in juices and desserts. Ripe courgettes, peas, and tender new potatoes are staples of the season’s summer harvest. Fresh herbs like basil, mint, and chives add delicious flavours to summer dishes. Not forgetting fruits from around the world, sending our senses into overdrive!


Basket of courgette, tomato, green beans, raspberries, blackberries, carrots, sprouted broccoli, red chard, surrounded by orange flowering nasturtiums
In-season summer-grown produce harvested in the UK

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, in the 15th Century, used seasonal fruit to build imaginative portraits.


Gilded frame, dark background. Side portrait made entirely of summer seasonal fruits and vegetables placed to form eyes, brow shapes, forehead, chin, nose, and skull. Clothing is made from ears of wheat/barley
The Summer - 1573. Oil Painting by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The original is in Musée du Louver

Art inspiration;

🎨 Explore painting some juicy summer fruits, delicious veg, or fragrant herbs. Study them closely before you begin, and use bright, vibrant colours


🎨 Visit a local produce market or research online and sketch the local stalls where the summer produce is displayed


🎨 Take a local walk or visit your allotments or community gardens, sketch what you see growing, or use other media, maybe some memories, and make a collage of the images. The produce and any little potting sheds…


Sunny day, large trees in background, in foreground, wood shed with rusty tin roof and well ordered allotment with green plants growing up canes
Garden shed in a veg allotment, Rosemoor, Devon, England, June 2021. Taken by Pete Turner

🎨 Maybe you have a summer recipe, using fresh summer ingredients. You need to add drawings to your recipe card, make this vibrant and appetising to readers


🎨 Think of the people who work on their gardens or in fields, maybe you’d like to draw them, their tools, or the machinery used in producing the summer crops


🎨 Try some painting in the style of Giuseppe Arcimboldo using summer fruit and vegetables to build up either your portrait or someone else's


I look forward to sharing time and seeing your ideas come together. It will be a great evening of creativity, and as always, we will support each other!


See you all soon 🙂 Wednesday evening, 7:30 pm UK time.


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