Thomas Nelson Fine Art

This painting has undergone several versions so as to tell the story of a young woman perhaps pensively leaving a beloved home. The barn is often a special place in the life of a farm child, sometimes even more than the house grown up in. In this case it's a horse barn.

There are, however, no longer any horses in this barn. The place is scrupulously clean even. Only a broom remains in the corner. Perhaps there never were any horses?

This painting is about much more than a clean barn. What that is I leave up to you