Inland Landscapes | Penny Markley

• View up the River

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16

• The White Lilac Bush

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14

• Rosa Rugosa

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14

• Red Barn with Lupine

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16

• Sunflower Patch

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. This was painted plein air at a farm in Belgrade, Maine. There were lots of possible subjects, but the sunflowers and barn caught my eye.

• Quiet Corner of Kidney Pond

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. This is a painting of a shallow corner of Kidney Pond in Baxter Park. It is called the Moose View because moose are often seen their feeding on the plants growing under water. There is a good view…

• C & O Canal

  Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20. My husband and I went on a bike trip on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. This image was painted from reference photos and memories of that trip. The shelf on the edge was where the mule and driver wa…

• Fall Fresh Water Marsh

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. A fall painting of a marsh near where I live. I have painted it many times since it is different every time depending on the season, the weather, or the time of day.

• Norcross Point Gazebo

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 16". The gazebo is in a town park on Lake Maranacook in Winthrop, Maine, where I live. It's a lovely place in any season, but I particularly like it in the Winter. The light on a clear day in February…

• Sturtevant Hill View Again

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 16". This was painted at the same view point where I have painted other paintings. It was an October afternoon that was beginning to cloud over. The light was still interesting and I was taken with th…

• Above Torsey Pond

  Oil, Panel, 11 x 14. This was painted from a hill overlooking a corner of Torsey Pond. I started the painting in September, but brought it back to paint over it in November when there was more variety in the color of th…

• Wilson Stream

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 24. This is a fresh water marsh a few miles from where I live. I love the contrasting varieties of green and the different textures of the grasses and trees. Since it is fresh water, I don't have to w…

• Late Winter Marsh

  Oil, Paper, 12" x 16". It was late winter and the ice was going out of this small marshy pond. I liked the contrast between the snow, the colorful marsh grasses , and the reflections in the water. I painted a small sket…

• Sheepscot Spring Greens

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. I originally painted this scene during the fall. I came back to the same place with a plein air group and repainted it in spring colors.

• Little Cobbessee Marsh 2020

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Canvas on wood panel. This is a plein air painting of a marsh I have painted many times since it is interesting in any season and near where I live.

• Welcome to Sandy Stream Pond

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 16". Painting of a cow moose that appeared while I was painting by Sandy Stream Pond in Baxter Park, Maine. She walked by about twelve feet from where I was painting and then stood and looked at me fo…

• Time to Relax

  Oil, Panel, 11 x 14. I painted this on the lawn of a charming cottage in Boothbay, Maine. Plein Air Painters of Maine had been invited to paint there. It was a lovely summer afternoon. I loved the roses, the Adirondack…

• Togue Pond View

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 16". This is a plein air painting of Mt. Katahdin in Baxter Park in Maine. The top of Katahdin is the end of Appalachian Trail Baxter Park is one of my favorite places in the world. I started going th…

• Blooms Above the River

  Oil, Canvas, 14" x 18". Iris blooming in a garden above the Sheepscot River in Wiscasset, Maine. It was painted plein air during a lovely early summer day.

• Cary Memorial Library

  Oil, Canvas, 8" x 11". Painting of the town library in Wayne, Maine, called the Carey Memorial Library.

• Mill Stream

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. This was painted in Jerhico, Vermont near a picturesque old mill. The mill was very tall and vertical, and I couldn't figure out how to make an interesting composition our of it. I decided that the…

• Little Marsh in Spring

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. The partially ice-covered small pond not far from where I live made an interesting subject. I could paint it comfortably from my car, sheltered from wind and cold.

• Katahdin from Daicy Pond

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24. Mount Katahdin in Baxter Park in Maine as seen in evening light from Daicey Pond Camps. Shipping included in price in continental US.

• Sheepscot in Fall

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. Sheepscot, Maine, is a lovely village where Dyer Brooks joins the Sheepscot River among some lovely salt water marshes. The marsh grasses change color with the seasons. Shipping in the continental…

• Old Birch and Brook

  Oil, Canvas, 9 x 12. The painting was done in Baxter State Park in Maine at Avalanche Brook in October during a plein air event run by North Light Gallery in Millinocket, Maine. It shows a brook in the woods where sunli…

• Sheepscot Spring Greens

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. This is one of my favorite places to paint any time of year. Shipping in the continental US is included in the price. For all other destinations, please call me.

• Mill Stream

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. Painting of a stream behind an old mill in Jerhico, Vermont, done on a lovely Sunday morning while I was waiting for a "wet paint" show to open in the afternoon. I had work in the show painted the…

• Androscoggin Spring Greens

  Oil, 11 x 14. This was painted from an island in the Androscoggin River in Turner, Maine. It was a lovely spring day, and I met some friends to paint with. I loved the backlit trees.

• Late-Winter-Evening

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. A painting of evening light in February as seen from my dining room window in Winthrop, Maine. Shipping in the continental United States is included in the price.

• Bright-Beech

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. The sun hit the beech leaves remaining on a little tree in my yard. The beech leaves which often don't fall off until Spring, lend interest and color to Winter woods. Shipping is included in the pr…

• Double Top

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24 x 3/4. This is a painting of Mount Double Top in Baxter State Park in Maine. I did a plein air painting from the bridge over a stream on a lovely September day when I was on a week long painting tri…

• Weather's Changing

  Oil, Canvas, 18" x 20" x 3/4. This a nearby freshwater marsh where I have painted several times. It was late September in central Maine. The leaves were starting to change and the marsh grass was a lovely gold. The even…

• Such Bright Color

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 16" x 3/4". This was painted plein air in early October. I was traveling with two friends from Schoodic Peninsula where we were staying as participants in a week long painting event. We agreed to stop…

• Railroad Crossing

  Oil, Canvas, 14" x 11" x 3/4". This was painted at a railroad crossing in Bartlett, New Hampshire. There was a tourist train running back and forth between North Conway and Bartlett. It passed by about every 40 minutes.…

• Cod Cove

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 16" x 3/4". This is a painting of a lovely late summer salt water marsh at near high tide in a cove of the Sheepscot River in Edgecomb, Maine. Shipping is included in the price for the continental U.S…

• Approaching Storm (studio)

  Oil, Canvas, 18 " x 24" x 3/4 ". This is based on a smaller plein air painting of a Maine marsh in the evening as a storm approaches. Egrets have taken flight. I painted the smaller painting very quickly to catch the ch…

• Late Afternoon at Togue Pond

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 16". This is the view of Katahdin from Togue Pond near the gate house to Baxter Park painted in the afternoon and the light was starting to fade.