'Under the boughs, Over the fields' Artwork

Original Petite Landscape by Eva Stockdale.

Gazing over the field from the shade
under a majestic old tree.

This piece explores the subtle colour of light in rural France: pale blues, muted greens, and warm earth tones that appear as the seasons begin to turn. A painting that holds a small fragment of that experience — the stillness of the landscape, passing clouds, and the delicate presence of everyday natural forms.

Oil on canvas panel.

Custom made and professionally shadow box framed in Natural Oak.

Measures: 20cm x 15cm framed | artwork 18cm x 13cm.

ARTIST'S NOTE:

This series was painted during two week-long artist retreats in Normandy in Summer 2024 and the Pays du Loire in Autumn 2025. When one really stops to look, small glimmers of beauty appear everywhere.

Working from observation, often painted en plein air, these paintings capture fleeting
moments of light, landscape, and seasonal change in the French countryside, reflecting the quiet beauty of fields, wildflowers, fruit and simple rural scenes.