On Friday I received this card from San Diego, California. It's a nice picture by American painter Jonathan Green. It's called Mustard Greens. I like this peaceful scene, the colours. That's why I looked in the Internet who this painter is. 
Painter and Printmaker Jonathan Green was born in 1955, and raised in the small Gullah* community of Gardens Corner, located near the Sea Islands of South Carolina. He was raised by his grandmother in a matriarchal society that relied heavily on oral traditions.Green paints the scenes and the people he knew as a child, pictures of what may be a vanishing way of life. His colorful paintings in acrylic and oil have helped to preserve the Gullah culture. His work ranges from scenes of everyday life, such as a girl walking a dog, a woman hanging out laundry, and men picking oysters, to special occasions such as a wedding or a christening. While Green paints the world in which he lived as a youth, his work also focuses on the problems of living in a multi-racial society today.
Green now lives in Naples, Florida, in an area that he says is very similar to the South Carolina Lowcountry**.
And some links about him
Book in Google
http://www.usca.edu/aasc/greenjon.htm
http://www.gallerychuma.com/jgreen_bio.html
* Some 250,000 African-Americans known as Gullahs in South Carolina and Geeches in Georgia are clustered along the Atlantic Coast--from Jacksonville, N.C., to Jacksonville, Fla. The word Gullah probably came from Angola, home of some of the Africans brought to the region during slavery.
**The Low Country is a place of broad flatlands, marshes, numerous inlets, rivers and islands bordering the Atlantic--romantically called Sea Islands.
*** Photo - from Naples News http://www.naplesnews.com/photos/2009/jul/18/112751/
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