In the studio this winter I have been doing a series of paintings based on the fields around where we live. The hay bales at thd end of the summer remind me of where I grew up in England. There was s field behind our house and I have the clear memory of watching a farmer plow the field. I might have been about seven years of age. I stood at the edge of the field thinking that I would love to drive the tracker and plow the earth. This was my first memory of having a idea about what to do when I grow up.
By painting these landscapes I feel I am getting at part of that desire as a child though I didn't know what it was.
Dutchess County
Oil on canvas
16x20
Private Collection
Hay Bales
Oil on panel
14x18
Jon MacAdam
Sky over Hay Bales
24x24
Oil on panel
"True Farm" Holderness,NH
Oil on canvas
11 x14
Private Collection
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