The expressionistic painter Veno Pilon was also an excellent draughtsman, printmaker and photographer. He first studied painting at Prague academy and continued the studies in Florence and Vienna until 1921 when he returned to his native Ajdovščina. At the end of 1928 he settled in Paris, where he made the acquaintance of numerous artists and started to take photography more seriously. He returned to Ajdovščina in 1968, two years before he died.  

Pilon depicted his native land, the Upper Vipava Valley, its architecture, technical heritage and the local population in all their harsh reality. He painted motifs and people that were close to him, the Hubelj riverbed, the source of the Vipava river, Ajdovščina, Vipavski Križ, and the surrounding hills. The Vipava landscape was a constant inspiration to the painter. In 1929 he travelled to Provence, the Côte d’Azure, Rome, Naples, and Florence, and returned home via Venice. In the present picture, he painted the wall with the parish Church of the Holy Cross to the right and the entrance into Vipavski Križ, a scene that completely lacks figures, with simplified planes and using his own photograph as an aid.