Winter Crossing is a compelling 24×36-inch oil painting by Robert Franklyn (born 1938, Kent, England), known for his bold impasto European landscapes and exhibitions in London, France, and Belgium. This expressive winter scene features a lone figure walking along a rugged path, framed by a stark leafless tree and a distant farmhouse beneath a muted, clouded sky.
Franklyn’s distinctive palette-knife technique creates dramatic textural surfaces—layers of thick, earthy strokes, soft grays, and pale snow tones that evoke the chill and stillness of a rural European winter. Acquired in Europe, this painting embodies Franklyn’s signature ability to merge atmospheric realism with sculptural painterly depth.
Ideal for collectors of European expressionist realism, British painters, and textured landscape art.
This set mirrors the structure of your previous Franklyn entries so all three can stand cohesively in your appraisal files, gallery site, catalog pages, and provenance documentation.
This powerful 24×36-inch landscape by Robert Franklyn showcases his expressive impasto technique and emotional command of atmospheric terrain. Painted in a muted palette of winter grays, brown earth tones, and touches of sage green, the composition centers on a lone leafless tree overlooking a rugged, wind-swept field.
The heavily textured areas—applied with Franklyn’s characteristic palette-knife strokes—create an almost geological surface. Layers of thick, dragged pigment depict the frozen ground, thawing earth, and the shifting tones of the cold sky. The distant farmhouse perched on the horizon introduces a quiet human presence, while a solitary figure walks along a narrow path that cuts through the barren terrain.
Birds scatter across the sky, animated with quick strokes, suggesting both movement and the starkness of the season. The open landscape and tonal restraint give the painting an emotional gravity characteristic of Franklyn’s mature Alpine/European rural style, though this work shifts from mountain drama to pastoral isolation and late-winter stillness.
Signed Franklyn lower right, the work belongs to the artist’s highly collected period from the 1960s–1980s, when he was exploring bold, gestural realism in European countryside settings.
Born: 1938, Kent, England
Trained: Post-college British art foundations; became known in London
Exhibited: Prominent London galleries; exhibitions in France & Belgium
Known for: Dramatic palette-knife landscapes, Alpine villages, rural scenes, European countryside, painterly realism
Robert Franklyn was born in Kent, England in 1938 and demonstrated artistic promise from childhood. Despite family expectations urging him toward a conventional career, Franklyn pursued the visual arts after college and quickly gained recognition in London's competitive gallery scene. His emotionally driven landscapes and impasto technique attracted collectors interested in expressive European realism.
His work was soon showcased in France and Belgium, expanding his reputation across the European continent. Franklyn traveled extensively throughout Europe—through the Alps, rural England, pastoral France, and Eastern European valleys—drawing inspiration from dramatic climates, rustic dwellings, expansive fields, and changing seasonal color.
Franklyn’s style blends:
Bold palette-knife strokes
Layered impasto textures
Emotional atmospheric settings
Rural realism with expressive abstraction
Cinematic composition
He produced landscapes that combine British discipline with the expressive continental techniques he absorbed abroad. His paintings remain sought after in private collections in Europe and the United States, prized for their texture, emotional tone, and enduring narrative presence.
Robert Franklyn (British, b. 1938)
Winter Crossing
Oil on Canvas, 24 × 36 in.
Signed lower right.
A dramatic winter landscape rendered with expressive palette-knife impasto, depicting a solitary figure, distant farmhouse, and muted atmospheric sky. Exhibited internationally.
Artist: Robert Franklyn (British, b. 1938)
Title: Winter Crossing
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24 × 36 inches
Signature: Signed “Franklyn” lower right
Period: Mid–Late 20th Century
Artist Background: Born in Kent (1938), exhibited in London, France, and Belgium. Known for expressive palette-knife landscapes and atmospheric European countryside scenes.
Condition: Excellent; stable textured surface, no repairs noted.
Provenance: Acquired in Europe; private U.S. collection.
Robert Franklyn Studio, Kent / European travels (Artist)
European Gallery / Exhibition Sale
Private Collection, Europe
Private Collection, United States
Current Owner Artfind Gallery (DC)
Winter Crossing is a compelling 24×36-inch oil painting by Robert Franklyn (born 1938, Kent, England), known for his bold impasto European landscapes and exhibitions in London, France, and Belgium. This expressive winter scene features a lone figure walking along a rugged path, framed by a stark leafless tree and a distant farmhouse beneath a muted, clouded sky.
Franklyn’s distinctive palette-knife technique creates dramatic textural surfaces—layers of thick, earthy strokes, soft grays, and pale snow tones that evoke the chill and stillness of a rural European winter. Acquired in Europe, this painting embodies Franklyn’s signature ability to merge atmospheric realism with sculptural painterly depth.
Ideal for collectors of European expressionist realism, British painters, and textured landscape art.
This set mirrors the structure of your previous Franklyn entries so all three can stand cohesively in your appraisal files, gallery site, catalog pages, and provenance documentation.
This powerful 24×36-inch landscape by Robert Franklyn showcases his expressive impasto technique and emotional command of atmospheric terrain. Painted in a muted palette of winter grays, brown earth tones, and touches of sage green, the composition centers on a lone leafless tree overlooking a rugged, wind-swept field.
The heavily textured areas—applied with Franklyn’s characteristic palette-knife strokes—create an almost geological surface. Layers of thick, dragged pigment depict the frozen ground, thawing earth, and the shifting tones of the cold sky. The distant farmhouse perched on the horizon introduces a quiet human presence, while a solitary figure walks along a narrow path that cuts through the barren terrain.
Birds scatter across the sky, animated with quick strokes, suggesting both movement and the starkness of the season. The open landscape and tonal restraint give the painting an emotional gravity characteristic of Franklyn’s mature Alpine/European rural style, though this work shifts from mountain drama to pastoral isolation and late-winter stillness.
Signed Franklyn lower right, the work belongs to the artist’s highly collected period from the 1960s–1980s, when he was exploring bold, gestural realism in European countryside settings.
Born: 1938, Kent, England
Trained: Post-college British art foundations; became known in London
Exhibited: Prominent London galleries; exhibitions in France & Belgium
Known for: Dramatic palette-knife landscapes, Alpine villages, rural scenes, European countryside, painterly realism
Robert Franklyn was born in Kent, England in 1938 and demonstrated artistic promise from childhood. Despite family expectations urging him toward a conventional career, Franklyn pursued the visual arts after college and quickly gained recognition in London's competitive gallery scene. His emotionally driven landscapes and impasto technique attracted collectors interested in expressive European realism.
His work was soon showcased in France and Belgium, expanding his reputation across the European continent. Franklyn traveled extensively throughout Europe—through the Alps, rural England, pastoral France, and Eastern European valleys—drawing inspiration from dramatic climates, rustic dwellings, expansive fields, and changing seasonal color.
Franklyn’s style blends:
Bold palette-knife strokes
Layered impasto textures
Emotional atmospheric settings
Rural realism with expressive abstraction
Cinematic composition
He produced landscapes that combine British discipline with the expressive continental techniques he absorbed abroad. His paintings remain sought after in private collections in Europe and the United States, prized for their texture, emotional tone, and enduring narrative presence.
Robert Franklyn (British, b. 1938)
Winter Crossing
Oil on Canvas, 24 × 36 in.
Signed lower right.
A dramatic winter landscape rendered with expressive palette-knife impasto, depicting a solitary figure, distant farmhouse, and muted atmospheric sky. Exhibited internationally.
Artist: Robert Franklyn (British, b. 1938)
Title: Winter Crossing
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24 × 36 inches
Signature: Signed “Franklyn” lower right
Period: Mid–Late 20th Century
Artist Background: Born in Kent (1938), exhibited in London, France, and Belgium. Known for expressive palette-knife landscapes and atmospheric European countryside scenes.
Condition: Excellent; stable textured surface, no repairs noted.
Provenance: Acquired in Europe; private U.S. collection.
Robert Franklyn Studio, Kent / European travels (Artist)
European Gallery / Exhibition Sale
Private Collection, Europe
Private Collection, United States
Current Owner Artfind Gallery (DC)
