Art Brokerage: Artist Lowell Herrero celebrates his lifelong
enchantment with nature’s beauty and fecundity and the deep
human connection to it. Herrero’s decade-long love affair with
the Napa Valley has been the immediate inspiration for his earthy
paintings. Yet, these are imaginary landscapes created in his
mind’s eye from a life of keen observation and experience.
Herrero delights in farmers engaged in varieties of agricultural
labor. He renders them bursting with life, over-large,
and content -- extensions of the very soil they cultivate. Vineyards
stretch into the distance as grape pickers enjoy lunch under a
cloudless blue sky. Lavender harvesters bend to their task, and a
field of rolled bales tells us the hard work of haying is at an end.