"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.

"Harbinger of Spring #2" 2010 watercolor C. Asheley Kapelewski

This was the side of a neighbor's maple sugar operation in Vemont's Northeast Kingdom, tucked up under Quebec next to northern NH. I'd photographed the whole place that day in early April, but settled on the line of old sugar maples next to the wood shed as the most evocative view. Has been my best selling print and card to date.