The basic elements of his landscape style the high viewpoint overlooking vast tracts, where earthy brown foregrounds merge into woodland and meadow greens and again into the hazy blues of distant mountains do not differ from those of his predecessors, particularly Gerard David.
For example, Meadow Greens with grapefruit, tarragon, dandelion, spinach, cucumber and pear.
If mainland Sweden has endless pine forests and lakes, then Gotland has gorse-strewn meadows, green fields upon which grey sheep graze and villages with maypoles: familiar terrain to anyone who has seen Persona, Wild Strawberries, Fanny and Alexander.
We are pootling along the smooth, rolling A roads of Sweden's west coast, past lakes, red clapperboard farmsteads, assorted summer houses with woodstacks piled high, granite escarpments, dense pine forests, sweeping meadows, green fields lined with regiments of lupins, and warning signs for moose.
And under your sorcery I fare forth To fabulous lands and meadows green with Spring And caught on the gossamer web of evening I behold incredible things no poet ever told.
It is widely distributed and habitat forming, often growing intermixed with other species and sometimes in dense, monospecific meadows (Green and Short, 2003).
So popular was the meadow-green berry in Georgian and Victorian times that gooseberry clubs sprang up across northern England – at one time there were 120 – where growers (mostly men) competed to grow the biggest fruits.
Meadow Plate: Grass green Wheel, yellow jewels on wheel, grass green hooves, yellow eyes and grass green jewel on forehead.
