Francine Harvey's Art

Jen, Ruby & Charlotte

From a picture taken on a glorious day at the beach last summer. I really enjoyed watching Ruby & Charlotte discover the little crabs, the squishiness of the sand and new playmates. Taking the pictures was almost as much as painting them! Oil, mainly done with  a knife.

My first daughter Amie

A picture of Amie (my first child) was taken when we were living  in Manhurst and working at my husbands brothers farm (years ago!) and I finally decided to paint it but transposed it to a beach. I like how it turned out![singlepic id=5 w=320 h=240 float=left]

Sam–My First grandson

Sam has a special place in my heart because I saw him being born and he was the first of the grandchildren. Even though I had 5 children myself, it still was the most amazing thing to behold! Painted in oils of course!

Small Poppies

I’ve decided to make some small knife paintings and these are the beginning on them.  I “love” doing these.  After doing portraits, it’s so soothing…. The frames , which are cedar, I’ve made myself and are from my neighbour Earl Corey’s stash of “junk” as his wife Joan would say. That’s not how Earl and [...]

Fundy Marshes

Took some pictures of the Fundy Marshes and this painting is the result. I love the colour orange so decided to emphasize the fall colour with this knife painting. I love how this turned out. 11×14 oil $175.00

Up

One of the familiar scenes fo nd in the fall in the Sussex Area. I have never been up in one, but did take a ride when I did the painting 18×24 inches Oil $350.00

A Happy Couple

I finally made a boat painting! A friend of mine , who is a vendor at the Moncton Market (and his wife) are fantastic photographers.   I asked his permission to make an interpretation of one of his photos. As soon as I saw this I was touched by the bigger boat protecting the smaller [...]

Apple Blossoms

I was raised on a 150 acre unused farm that had 250 apple trees on it. My memories include so many wonderful things as far as nature is concerned, but for this painting it is for the memory of the days that I spent walking up and down the rows, smelling the sweet apples blossoms [...]

My Poppies

At our former home, I had poppies growing wild everywhere. I especially liked the single poppies that would show their tender heads anywhere and these were found near my garden fence.  I just wanted to capture their simplicity in a simple way.

Wild Flowers

This was my first attempt at doing knife painting and I discovered that I really LOVE doing this. Knife painting is so much more relaxing and less precise and quicker.  I like doing wet on wet, so you do have to make sure you have a good space of time to dedicate to it on [...]

Sir Thomas

This is Thomas my cat. In this painting I wanted a history of myself in some way and came up with this idea. The chair is one of several  that I had built from the left over wood that we had cleared for the building of our home.  The hoe represents my love of gardening [...]

Jessie’s Wedding

I decided to do this painting mainly because I liked the importance of the day, but I also wanted to try some long flowing clothing. In the photo, part of her wedding dress was clipped off, so I had to try to make it up. Their wedding took place in their apple orchard of their [...]

Grandma’s Front Porch

This painting comes fr om the memories of my own front porch of the days of my youth. I spent hours and hours rocking and talking and dreaming on that porch…by myself or with my Mother or Grandmother.  The rocking chair is just like one of the ones we had. I especially loved to watch [...]

Best of Friends

I love portraits from the back!  Nothing is posed and it feels natural. This painting was made from one of the many pictures taken when Bess was back home visiting with us.  We were on a nastalgic day trip to Fundy Park where we went to familiar spots and explored the less know.  This was [...]

Golfing Buddies

This painting comes from of picture I took of Ron Sr. caddying for Ron Jr. during the US Amateur in 2003 at Oakmont on the 12th hole during the practice round. What a golf course that was.  You had to be there to believe the quickness of the greens!