Michelle (Basic) Hendry - Fine Artist & Author

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Painting ~ Muskoka Barn

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Fleger Barn, Muskoka, 12×16, © 2017 M.Hendry

I painted the Fleger farm many times during the creation of the Echoes series. In fact, it was the farmhouse that started the entire project and “Twilight” was first in the series back in 2008. At the time of my visits, the barn had been gone for many years. The stone foundation was mostly rubble beneath a blanket of vines and wildflowers.

Dorothy and Earl Fleger’s grandson, Curtis, gave me an old photograph and let me hang on to it for years. I promised him that, one day, it would become a painting.

Finally, it has.

1986 photo of Fleger barn

I am attaching the original photo from 1986. (below, right)

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    • There is so much colour because so much is reflected and rarely can a photo capture it all. That’s what makes painting and art special, I think! Thanks, Jennifer!

  8. Your painting is beautiful Michelle, as I know it would be after seeing your many other paintings. That is the first time I have seen a picture of the barn. They don’t make them like that any more. The snow has played havoc with the foundation and a couple of years ago the front wall partially crumbled so it is not safe to go in and check it out but you can still see the architecture in the stable part when you look at it and how well they even molded the corners so perfectly with those huge rocks! It really was a work of art.