Hazelnuts Piedmont Italy by Roger Beale

Artist’s Statement

Piedmont in Italy’s northwest produces Barolo wine, rose veal (think of the famous Vitello Tonnato) and hazelnuts (Nutella). We toured, ate, drank and sketched in 2018. I was surprised to see that hazelnuts were grown on quite small shrubs to aid harvesting. I used a variety of steel nib dip pens, reed pens a fountain pen and a sable brush to make this ink and wash on A3 paper.