Having spent a good deal of time framing and getting ready for my show, it’s been really satisfying to return to the drawing board and get back to creating art again.  This new work, “Blackbird with Cherries”, was inspired by looking out at the tree line behind our house and spotting a big crow perched [...]

Wrens are tiny little birds, but though small they have a beautiful, melodious song that bird books describe as “bubbling” and “exuberant”.  They are mostly brown with some buff and/or white markings, and have short tails that they hold cocked over their backs in a distinctly swaggering way.  In Celtic times, the wren was believed [...]

Late last week I finished “Bede’s Sparrow”, the latest painting in my “birds in literature” series.  The flight of this single sparrow through a great hall is a tale recorded by the Venerable Bede, an English monk, in the 7th century.  At this time King Edwin had met with a missionary from Rome who was [...]