Roscoff 2013

Roscoff - Johnnies and Onions

We went on holiday this year to Roscoff where these famous strings of onions had originated from in Brittany, France. "Johnnies" are people who are tasked with creating these onion sellers. Every August, from the 17th Century these Johnnies, along with the Onions left France to sell their onions on  the other side of the channel. They sold the onions by going door to door  by bicycle, this happened seasonally fitting in with the growth of the onions growth and demand from the public . This is  my watercolor version of one that sits outside a creperie in Roscoff  town center.