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October Light, Fleury Maple Hill Farm, 43x29 (2025) Photograph by Francois de Melogue
109.22 x 73.66cm (unframed) / 106.68 x 71.12cm (actual image size)
£590.09
Artwork description
October Light, Fleury Maple Hill Farm
Francois de Melogue
2025 | Archival pigment print on professional luster fine art paper, 260gsm. | 43 x 29
The gravel road descends in a slow curve, loose stone catching the flat October light, pale as unpolished silver. At the bottom of the hill the farm settles into the valley: a red barn weathered to the color of old brick, a concrete silo wearing a domed cap of oxidized metal, outbuildings leaning slightly under the weight of accumulated seasons. The maples along the road have burned through their full range, lemon yellow at the edges, deep amber in the middle, a hard persimmon red where the branches thin against the sky. Nothing is quite still. The leaves have that particular mid-October looseness, not yet falling but no longer holding on with conviction.
Beyond the farm, Franklin County opens in long horizontal layers. Meadows the color of worn felt give way to woodlots in full riot, then to the blue-gray shoulders of the distant hills. A peak rises above the tree line, still green at its flanks and darkening toward the summit, while the soft cumulus of a clearing afternoon stands white against a sky gone pale and hazy with the season. There is a quality of light in Vermont in October, low and oblique, that makes ordinary farm buildings look considered, as if they had been placed there deliberately, which in a sense they were.
Available in three sizes, each signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity:
Fine Art Print 25 x 17 paper, 24 x 16 image | Limited Edition of 50 | $295
Fine Art Print 43 x 29 paper, 42 x 28 image | Limited Edition of 25 | $795
Fine Art Print 61 x 41 paper, 60 x 40 image | Limited Edition of 10 | $1,495
About the print
Each piece is made on location and printed by hand in my Vermont studio with archival pigment inks rated for over a hundred years of color stability. The 25 x 17 is printed on Premium Satin paper. The 43 x 29 and 61 x 41 are printed on Luster Photo Paper, 260gsm. Each print carries a 0.5 inch archival white border, ships rolled in a heavy tube, and arrives with a signed certificate.
About my work
I spent thirty years cooking in farm-to-table kitchens before returning to the camera. My work is held in private collections across the United States and Europe. A traveling exhibition is currently on view at The University of Vermont Medical Center and Burlington City Hall in Vermont, and my photographs were recently included in the 35th Annual Green Mountain Photography Show. I am represented in Vermont by Artisan's Gallery in Waitsfield, ArtHound in Essex, Artists in Residence in Saint Albans, The Emile Gruppe Gallery, and Remarkable Things in Stowe.
Custom sizes and framing available on request.
Materials used:
Archival pigment print on Luster Photo Paper, 260gsm. Shot on a Canon EOS R5 Mark II. Printed in studio on a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-4100 with museum-grade archival pigment inks.
Details:
- Photograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 25
- Size: 109.22 x 73.66cm (unframed) / 106.68 x 71.12cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
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Artwork description
October Light, Fleury Maple Hill Farm
Francois de Melogue
2025 | Archival pigment print on professional luster fine art paper, 260gsm. | 43 x 29
The gravel road descends in a slow curve, loose stone catching the flat October light, pale as unpolished silver. At the bottom of the hill the farm settles into the valley: a red barn weathered to the color of old brick, a concrete silo wearing a domed cap of oxidized metal, outbuildings leaning slightly under the weight of accumulated seasons. The maples along the road have burned through their full range, lemon yellow at the edges, deep amber in the middle, a hard persimmon red where the branches thin against the sky. Nothing is quite still. The leaves have that particular mid-October looseness, not yet falling but no longer holding on with conviction.
Beyond the farm, Franklin County opens in long horizontal layers. Meadows the color of worn felt give way to woodlots in full riot, then to the blue-gray shoulders of the distant hills. A peak rises above the tree line, still green at its flanks and darkening toward the summit, while the soft cumulus of a clearing afternoon stands white against a sky gone pale and hazy with the season. There is a quality of light in Vermont in October, low and oblique, that makes ordinary farm buildings look considered, as if they had been placed there deliberately, which in a sense they were.
Available in three sizes, each signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity:
Fine Art Print 25 x 17 paper, 24 x 16 image | Limited Edition of 50 | $295
Fine Art Print 43 x 29 paper, 42 x 28 image | Limited Edition of 25 | $795
Fine Art Print 61 x 41 paper, 60 x 40 image | Limited Edition of 10 | $1,495
About the print
Each piece is made on location and printed by hand in my Vermont studio with archival pigment inks rated for over a hundred years of color stability. The 25 x 17 is printed on Premium Satin paper. The 43 x 29 and 61 x 41 are printed on Luster Photo Paper, 260gsm. Each print carries a 0.5 inch archival white border, ships rolled in a heavy tube, and arrives with a signed certificate.
About my work
I spent thirty years cooking in farm-to-table kitchens before returning to the camera. My work is held in private collections across the United States and Europe. A traveling exhibition is currently on view at The University of Vermont Medical Center and Burlington City Hall in Vermont, and my photographs were recently included in the 35th Annual Green Mountain Photography Show. I am represented in Vermont by Artisan's Gallery in Waitsfield, ArtHound in Essex, Artists in Residence in Saint Albans, The Emile Gruppe Gallery, and Remarkable Things in Stowe.
Custom sizes and framing available on request.
Materials used:
Archival pigment print on Luster Photo Paper, 260gsm. Shot on a Canon EOS R5 Mark II. Printed in studio on a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-4100 with museum-grade archival pigment inks.
Details:
- Photograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 25
- Size: 109.22 x 73.66cm (unframed) / 106.68 x 71.12cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
