Bales of Straw Under a Summer Sky

After passing a newly baled field on a back road along the way home one day, I was inspired to paint this county landscape. There are not many old fence posts and fence lines left around here, so I like to include them from my memories, as was the rest of this country landscape scene.

Old Stone House

I painted this old stone house and farm scene from my imagination and memories of old houses that I have passed over the years on the quiet back roads in the Heartland.  

Newly Published Book Cover, Farm Landscape Art by Sharon France

I was happy to be contacted by the author Brooks Lamb, to license one of my farm landscape paintings as the cover art on his new book “Love for the Land”. This book has just been published by Yale University Press and tells “the stories of small-scale farmers who, despite intense adversity, continue caring for their land.”

Farm House Painting at Sunset

Nearing Sunset on the Old Farm

This painting of a quiet country farmstead is from my imagination, and was inspired from a lovely evening sky that I came upon, while on the drive home earlier this year.

Under the Big Dipper Painting XIX

This painting is part of by Big Dipper series that I have been working on. The previous paintings have already been sold into private collections. For each painting in this series I have depicted a unique farmhouse scene under the big open sky above.

Road Past the Old Farm

An old farmstead set along a quiet country back road, is the scene from my imagination that I decided on for this painting. The more remote an old farmstead is located along a little traveled road, are the ones that I have always found the most intriguing!