Artist Jan Norsetter is an award-winning oil painter known for vibrant landscape paintings en plein air and evocatively detailed studies in still life. Norsetter paints en plein air (painting in the open air) to imbue her paintings with a sense of place. She works outdoors in every season, painting close to home and on travels to the western United States and overseas to Italy, Ireland, Scotland and Norway.
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Saturday, September 26, 2015 - Knocknaveagh at the top of Sheskin Hill
We'd heard of this place but it took us a while to find it.
We helped the shepherd get his sheep from the field in the above photo to the field in the photo below.
We were standing in the pasture while I was painting. When we packed up the shepherd asked if we would walk out behind his sheep. He was having trouble moving them to the next pasture. They are afraid of everything so it was easy enough to get them to move in the right direction. The shepherd was a man of few words, no conversation. He was busy with chores.
I love the way the countryside looks like a rag quilt with the hedge rows as the seams...such a peaceful vista.
ReplyDeleteThat's one of my favorite things about the landscape too, Mary:-)
ReplyDeleteWe were standing in the pasture while I was painting. When we packed up the shepherd asked if we would walk out behind his sheep. He was having trouble moving them to the next pasture. They are afraid of everything so it was easy enough to get them to move in the right direction. The shepherd was a man of few words, no conversation. He was busy with chores.
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