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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Freedom


Freedom
20x16
mixed media
Juvenile bald eagle against a golden sun, on a pearly blue sky.
#1 in the Salthaven series

Flight


Flight
18x24
metallic gold, and copper paint
unframed
430.00
Kestrels, or sparrow hawks as they are sometimes called are a small colourful hawk often seen perched on telephone/hydro wires looking for prey in the grasses below.
Almost wiped out by DDT, they have made a comeback that is heart warming to see.
The copper disc has grasses and found objects embedded in it representative of the kestrel's word of grasslands.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Butterfly painting, 'Blues on the Brink'

copper butterfly
Blues on the brink
3x4
mixed media
Framed

The background of this painting is metallic gold, the butterfly is a male copper, an endangered butterfly found only in bogs, like Sifton Bog in London.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Summer Gold

bee and yellow cone flower painting

Summer Gold
3x4
mixed media
framed

Note the honey bee on the cone flower, does the gold refer to her? the honey she labours to produce? or the gold of the cone flowers?

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Me N My Mom


8x10
acrylic on paper
matted













NA 

Peaceable Kingdom

Peaceable Kingdom
Acrylic
48x 72 mini mural
NFS

Gilded Dawn


16x24
mixed media
framed

Collage Craze


3x5
mixed media
framed

Three


5x7
mixed media
framed
sold

New Moon Magic


New Moon Magic
Mixed media
8x10













NA

Fly Away



Fly Away
Mixed Media
8x10
sold

This piece quotes the children's rhyme "Lady Bug Lady Bug, fly away home..." and references the endangered status of the native North American Lady Bug. Native Lady Bugs have nine spots and have been severely over taken by the introduce European seven spot Lady Bug to the point of near extinction.

Series: At Risk

The Canvas backing board is painted metallic gold. Collage elements are hand dyed archival tissue embedded with dried botanicals, and acrylic transfers. Writing and painted images in acrylic.