Golden Cascade

Golden Cascade  Oil  4 3/ x 10 in. oilon canvas panel           SOLD
The glories of Fall, cascades of golden leaves dress the birches in garlands of  color . the beauty is all too short, brought to a halt by wind and rain.......then the trees are bare until the Spring.

Strutten Their Stuff

Strutten Their Stuff   Oil On panel 10 x 10   $185.00
Two Roosters out checking  the area for Chicks , enjoying the morning sunshine. This is done with both brush and palette knife work, creating great texture.
Makes me smile and hope it does the same for you.

Across the Meadow

Across the Meadow  On a field filled with native grasses and wildflowers, looked and felt like a great place to throw a blanket on the ground and have a picnic. I imagined cattle grazing here at some time but now it is just a quiet place to pause and enjoy the beauty.

Jessica's Chickens

Jessica's SOLD

One of my favorite subjects, chickens doing what chickens do best...eating their way through the farm yard, true free range

Into the Marshlands

Into the Marshlands  6 x 8  Oil on linen panel
I am always challenging myself, this was all done with a palette knife  with a time limit of 30 min.
I tried to create depth and a feeling of  a delightful day in wetlands.

Cattail Fluff

Cattail Fluff 6 x 8 Oil on linen panel         SOLD
As a child I loved to pick the newly burst cattails and tickle under my nose with the soft down bursting forth.The tall stately cattail becomes a stem of fluff to be cast by the wind so there will be seed spread for a new patch in the Spring.

Field Patterns

Field Patterns  8 x 10 Oil on panel $195.00
Born and raised in the rich soil country of the Red River Valley of the North, I never tired of the beauty of the clean rows of new seedlings coming up, then the waving grain and then the golden grain swallowed up by the combine like a monster with a voracious appetite.

Golden Glow

 Golden Oil on Linen Panel 6 x 8  $145.00
 This is the delight of Fall, the golden remains of a harvested field and at the edge the last Golden show of leaves before the cold winds scatter the leaves and the the field is blackened  by the plow.Then comes the white of winter

Mum is the Word

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"Mum is the Word" 6 x 8   $145.00

Oil on linen

I love my old bottles with a few flowers for a casual bouquet. I was potting my mums and a few broke off so put them in one of my collection and  I had  a painting waiting to happen
so I got out my paints and here it is.

"Season is Soon Changing"  8x10 canvas panel  $275.00
Once again I am mesmerized by the color and the reflections of the trees and vegetation in a near by  shallow river. You can feel the air change as summer nears an end.

Reflection on Reflections

                         

"Reflection on Reflections"

Oil on canvas  8 x 16

$225.00

A typical scene on one of our many lakes. I enjoy painting the quiet still water with the landscape reflecting in subtle colors in the water. There is a poetry in  this that I continue to enjoy.