"Winter's Pause" 2020  watercolor C. Asheley Kapelewski

This is another farm in the lower Champlain Valley of Vermont, on Route 30. I often drive by this and other handsome farms on my way up to Burlington. The farm wasn't being used at the time, now there are cows in the field to the left, and signs of industry in the unused areas around the barn. Good to see it in production again. The maples to the right must be hundreds of years old. I love to paint farm buildings and architecture in general, this was a great opportunity to combine the landscape of Vermont and my interest in barns.

 

"Snowbound Farm" 2021 watercolor C. Asheley Kapelewski

Part of the fun of living inn Vermont is almost every mundane commute is accompanied by exquisite views. This one is of a farm on Route 30 in Cornwall, with the Green Mountains as backdrop for a tidy winter view of an Addison County farm. The barn red and the soft browns are the only colors in late winter. I think the practical arrangement of the farm buildings is why it is so beautiful.

 "View from the Great Ledge" 2021 watercolor C. Asheley Kapelewski

A friend of ours has a secluded home that borders the Great Ledge on the Benson/Fair Haven Vermont town line. Home to a protected population of Northern Rattlesnakes, it also has a gorgeous view north of the end of the Champlain Valley. The patchwork of farm field and forest I photographed from their private sunny ledge is what inspired me to paint this limited color work.

 

"Addison County Sunset" watercolor 2021 C. Asheley Kapelewski

The wide open spaces of Addison County in Western VT have an expansive mid-western feel that most folks wouldn't associate with this state. With the Adirondack mountains off to the west across Lake Champlain, and the Green Mountains of Vermont cradling this wide ancient lake bottom off to the east, it is a truly special place. I sought to capture a typically magnificent sunset in this painting.