Tony Conner

“Afternoon Farm”

20″ x 28″

$1,120

This painting is one of a series of works completed this summer (see “Along The Way“) that celebrate rural scenery, roads, farms & fields.   Although I sometimes question the thought during the dreary days in January, February and March, I really am fortunate to live and work in such a beautiful and quaint area of the country.   Vermont and the surrounding New England states and even the neighboring areas of upstate New York provide so much “paintable” subject matter.

Both farms and covered bridges are so strongly associated with Vermont.  As an artist, it can be difficult to add anything artistic to subjects that have been painted by many other artists.  Even so, barns, sheds and all of the other working structures found in this area hold particular facination for me, as do the seemingly endless rural roads where one farm follows another as you travel along.

The quality of light at this lattitude begins to take on the look of autumn as July wanes and fades to August, particularly in the afternoon.  In this painting I hoped to combine the  typical and romanticized farm building, and use it to depict the light on a late July afternoon.

The result is this painting.   Thanks for looking - and enjoy the remains of summer.