Reflections of a Country Landscape Artist: heritage sheep

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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Icelandic Sheep Painting at Chicago Art Gallery Show

This painting is the first in my new series that I started working on late in 2012. I decided on an ewe, of a heritage breed of Icelandic Sheep, as the main subject for this painting "Near Home". We raise a few heritage turkeys and chickens after starting with a "Bourbon Red Turkey" tom, that we brought home from a Rare Breeds Livestock show. I will be posting more paintings from my new series of farm landscapes of heritage life stock, as the year goes on.

This piece is currently in a juried show at the Bridgeport Art Gallery in Chicago, IL through Jan. 2013.

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About Me

I live on an old farmstead in the Heartland and love the country life!

I specialize in paintings of old barns, farmhouses and quiet rural landscapes, found along the back roads of America. I hope that you will enjoy viewing my original landscape paintings!

I received a BFA in Fine Art and my original art has been shown in juried gallery art shows in the U.S. I am currently represented by The Chait Galleries Downtown, Artful Home and Ugallery. My web site: www.francegallery.net.

My paintings can be private collections throughout the U.S.A. as well as in: Iceland, France, Canada, Belgium, Ireland, England, Scotland, Portugal, Italy, Japan, Zimbabwe, Australia and Brazil. An article about my original heartland landscape paintings was in the fine Art Magazine "Empty Easel". I have been happy to have my paintings featured as cover art on several book covers now: Praying With Your Whole Heart, Three Ways of Loving God, and Cinagro Farm, Family Favorites from the Farm and beyond...

"I shut my eyes in order to see." Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech." Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)

"I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." Orson Welles
(1915 - 1985)

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. " Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."

"The simplification of anything is always sensational."
G.K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)