After Hours on the Farm

prints of the original oil painting by Ken Dahl

September 2026

The farming family in this bucolic northwest valley settles in for the evening, while two bear cubs venture out from the forest to play on a tire swing. Their mother watches impatiently, as the sun slips beneath the horizon. I got the idea for this painting when I was driving the other day and the song “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper came on my radio. Sounds crazy, I know, but you never know where the inspiration for a new painting is going to come