Country Landscape Paintings - American Road Trip Farm Paintings

 

Thank you to Ugallery for featuring my farm paintings in their new curated art collection "American Road Trip"

American Road Trip - Country Landscape Paintings 

A COUNTRY MILE

Serene in the expanses of the American Heartland, Sharon France paints captivatingly simple and bucolic landscapes that express the idealism of farm life. Through clear tripartite compositional divisions – background, mid-ground, and foreground – she creates a harmony throughout her canvas.

“I love to travel through the back roads of the American heartland during the summer. The young rows of corn and soybeans look like long ribbons of green with the dark brown Midwestern soil between them. By midsummer, fields of oats and wheat ripen to a beautiful, light golden-brown color. The combination of the corn, soybean fields and pastures, make me think of lovely old patchwork quilts. I find endless inspiration for my paintings on the back roads of the American Heartland.” 

Sharon

Red Barn in Patchwork Farm Fields

Barn in the Patchwork Fields

 I really like how the farm fields in later summer and fall start to take on a "patchwork" effect as crop colors change as they ripen. This farm painting was inspired by that look, and was recently sold to a collector in TX.

Sheep by a Quiet Old Farm Painting

Just a Little Ways from Home

I have had an idea for a new sheep painting floating around in my head for a couple of months now.  This is the newly finished painting from that idea.  I painted this quiet sheep into an overcast farm scene from my imagination.  I really like painting a variety of atmosphere in my country landscapes, from blue skies filled with puffy white clouds, to overcast and misty scenes, to stormy and night time skies.  I am currently working on a starry night landscape with a horse in a silent farm painting. 

The sides of the gallery wrapped canvas are painted to match, and it is wired to hang, so no framing is necessary!  

Modern Farm Paintings

Old Farm Under a Pink Sky

5 x 7" on archival hardboard panel.   

I am in the midst of working on a series of little country landscape paintings right now.  These study paintings are from memories and thoughts that I have of old country farmsteads.  I use them to work out ideas to possibly use for my larger canvas paintings. 

I have loved the country as far back as I can remember.   I look forward to painting and the peace that I find in it.  I hope that you may find that in viewing my original art work also. 

This painting has already been sold.  

Little Country Farm

For purchase info and to see more of my farm painting please visit the link below.

Farm Art Originals 

Red Barn on a Quiet Farm Landscape Painting

Red Barn on an Old Farm

This painting was inspired by the old red barns and white farmhouses that were once so common along the country backroads, that I love.  There is something so peaceful and pleasant about being out in the country on a quiet summers day!  I hope to capture that in my paintings of summer time in the beautiful American Heartland.     

Please visit my web site for more info. on this and my other farm paintings and country landscape art.

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. 

My Country Landscape Blog has moved over to my web site now.

Thank you so much for stopping by my art blog.  I moved it over to my web site last year and have continued it there.  If you would like to visit and see what I have been posting since earlier last year, please visit my new blog link below.   

Francegallery.net   Art Blog

 

  Abstract Farm Under a Yellow Sky

 

 Red Barn - Yellow Fields      Sold

 

Here are two recent slightly abstracted, farm landscape paintings, that I have completed.  I have ideas for several more floating around in my head to work on in the near future too.  

 

Top 10 Artist Work ~ Original Paintings by Sharon France

My original art was chosen by Guest Curator Stephen Collins of the TV show "Property Envy", as #4 of his top 10 favorite artists (out of 500) on Ugallery.com.

http://www.ugallery.com/bravotv-top-picks#4