Old red barn in a quiet summer landscape

Red Barn in a Quiet Field 

This landscape was inspired by the old wooden red barns that once were so common along the country back roads that I love. As time goes on, there are fewer and fewer of them left standing. I painted this simple red barn into a quiet summers landscape scene from my imagination. The piece is on a gallery wrapped canvas with finished edges. It comes ready to hang.
I hope that you will enjoy viewing my vision and glimpses of the quiet, old rural landscapes of the American heartland. Old farms, barns, cattle, sheep, meadows and big open skies, are often the inspiration for my art. I have been influenced by the old Barbizon, Tonalist, & Luminist painters for my original dreamscape, landscape paintings.

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By My Little Country Cottage

This painting is a bit of an imaginary self portrait.  I have loved the country since I was a kid, visiting my grandparents remote Midwestern farm.  This little girl came from my imagination about a decade ago and finds her way into my paintings every so often.  In this scene she is headed towards a little white cottage in a quiet meadow scene.  This painting is currently available for purchase and measures 11 x 14" on stretched canvas.  

A couple of new small farm landscape paintings by Sharon France

 I have been working on some small paintings this past couple of months.  Here are two of the ones that I have completed now.   Deciding on what sort of weather and time of day is one of the fun things that I like about landscape painting!  I have painted everything from sunny blue skies, cloud filled skies, overcast skies, sunsets skies, stormy skies, tornado scenes, night paintings and others in between.  These two painting measure just 5 x 7", painted on archival quality hardboard panels. 

Sunset Over the Old Stone Farmhouse

If you have seen my paintings over time, you may have guessed that I love old farmhouses and am especially fond of old stone ones.  I painted wisps of smoke coming from the chimney of this farmstead scene, with a pastel sunset sky and clouds overhead.   It makes me happy to think of warmer weather ahead, after a long hard winter here in the Midwest.  Early summer is my favorite time of year and I look forward to those warm, quiet, windless days during that time of year.   

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Queen Anne's Lace on the Farm

This is a photo taken on our old farmstead, in the summer when the Queen Anne's lace ( Wild Carrot ) comes into full bloom. This was taken on a misty morning, just the kind of day that I like to paint. Queen Anne's Lace is not native to the United States, but was brought from Europe and has naturalized over our country. I am missing warm weather right now, in the midst of winter, but it gives me more time to paint!

I am working on several paintings right now. I normally rotate between several paintings at a time so that while one is drying between layers, I can switch over to another piece. I often need time to stop and think about what I want to do next on a painting also, and that gives me more time for that too.

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