Haying Day
2024 | Oil on archival paper mounted on panel | 5×7 inches
The smell and crisp feel of the air in Autumn, on a really dry summer day, is the possibly more distinctive for me even than the visual elements of the brilliant warm colors. On the day I painted this, in early autumn, I happened across this view of a farm field tilting gently up to a farmhouse, probably 150 or 200 years old), perched on the hill above.It happened to be the day they had “tedded” the hay (stirred it and flipped it so it will dry evenly), and the smell of drying hay on a day like that is a sensory experience everyone should experience at least once in their lives.Autumn is also a time, I find, when I discover things (like this view) that have been in plain sight the whole summer that I have walked past many times.The practical reason might be that the leaves are thinning out and I can see the shape of the land more clearly, but a deeper reason might be that I have a renewed energy and sense of urgency that arises as the weather becomes clearer and colder and I sense the approach of winter.
This painting is sold in a solid wood frame, as pictured.
2024 | Oil on archival paper mounted on panel | 5×7 inches
The smell and crisp feel of the air in Autumn, on a really dry summer day, is the possibly more distinctive for me even than the visual elements of the brilliant warm colors. On the day I painted this, in early autumn, I happened across this view of a farm field tilting gently up to a farmhouse, probably 150 or 200 years old), perched on the hill above.It happened to be the day they had “tedded” the hay (stirred it and flipped it so it will dry evenly), and the smell of drying hay on a day like that is a sensory experience everyone should experience at least once in their lives.Autumn is also a time, I find, when I discover things (like this view) that have been in plain sight the whole summer that I have walked past many times.The practical reason might be that the leaves are thinning out and I can see the shape of the land more clearly, but a deeper reason might be that I have a renewed energy and sense of urgency that arises as the weather becomes clearer and colder and I sense the approach of winter.
This painting is sold in a solid wood frame, as pictured.
2024 | Oil on archival paper mounted on panel | 5×7 inches
The smell and crisp feel of the air in Autumn, on a really dry summer day, is the possibly more distinctive for me even than the visual elements of the brilliant warm colors. On the day I painted this, in early autumn, I happened across this view of a farm field tilting gently up to a farmhouse, probably 150 or 200 years old), perched on the hill above.It happened to be the day they had “tedded” the hay (stirred it and flipped it so it will dry evenly), and the smell of drying hay on a day like that is a sensory experience everyone should experience at least once in their lives.Autumn is also a time, I find, when I discover things (like this view) that have been in plain sight the whole summer that I have walked past many times.The practical reason might be that the leaves are thinning out and I can see the shape of the land more clearly, but a deeper reason might be that I have a renewed energy and sense of urgency that arises as the weather becomes clearer and colder and I sense the approach of winter.
This painting is sold in a solid wood frame, as pictured.