Art to add some of the peace & quiet of the country to your life. 

This site is an ongoing exhibition of my original landscape paintings of rural America.  The paintings  in the above slide show, have already been sold.  Please view my Available Paintings page, to see my current work.    I also paint commissioned pieces upon request.   



  Why do I paint the country?

   I have been blessed to live and paint on a quite old farmstead, surrounded by fields, for most of my life now.   It all started when I was a kid growing up. We had a field in front of our house, and a field in back of our house, yet lived on a street that had other homes along it, at the edge of town.  In the summer, I remember the walks through the field of corn behind our house, and the feel of the damp mud on my bare feet back then.   The trips to my grandparents remote Midwestern farm, are some of my favorite childhood memories, and from as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to live in the country like them. My husband grew up on a farm, and after we married our goal was to move to out of town. Soon we did, and we have never regretted that decision.  We live in old farmhouse with a red barn, which are a great inspiration for what I paint.  It gives me a sense of peace and happiness to work on my quiet, country, landscape paintings, and I hope that you may find that in them also.


My  contemporary country landscapes are of the old farms, barns, farmhouses, animals, and quiet rural scenes, that I love to paint.   The ideas for my paintings come from my imagination, and are often of memories, and places that I have been and seen, here in the Midwestern Heartland.   My original art has been described as  having an intriguing peacefulness, in its quiet austere, simplicity.   I hope that you will enjoy viewing my art. 

Sharon France


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