Top: Colletotrichum Fruit from 09 Oct 2022

Bottom: Colletotrichum Vegetables from 16 Oct 2022

I really, really enjoyed painting these. I think that that somehow comes across in the vibrancy of the colours!

Fruit: The painting shows a side view of a blue fruit bowl containing two red/pink apples, four strawberries and a mango. All of the pieces of fruit have brown, sunken, roughly circular lesions. Concentric rings of darker brown are visible on the apple lesions, and some of the strawberry seeds present within the strawberry lesions have turned brown.

Vegetables: The painting shows a side view of a pile of overlapping vegetables containing one aubergine/eggplant, three pea pods attached to a single stem, two sweet/bell peppers (red and yellow), three potatoes, and five tomatoes attached to a single stem. All of the fruiting bodies have brown sunken lesions, with target-like concentric rings on the aubergine and peppers. The potatoes have grey/brown lesions on the surface, with brown dots representing both the lesion and sclerotia.