Artist:

Francisca Cota

artist statement

This painting was inspired by the types of vegetables that I remember my Mother preparing for us when I was a child.  Often times these vegetables were gleaned by my Father from the fields where he worked as a farm worker.  We never went hungry, our meals were blessed.

Ruth 3:17  So Ruth gleaned in the field until the evening....19  Her mother-in-law asked her, "Where did you glean today?  Where did you work?  Blessed be the man who took notice of you!"

The Lord blessed our family as well, by providing good farmers in Arizona who allowed their workers to glean from the crops.