RAVEN'S FLIGHT
ACRYLICS ON CEDAR W/RED OAK FRAME
WINTER 2021-22

​     If you get the chance to see a raven up close, you can’t miss how impressive they are: big, black, and beautiful.  Watch them fly, and they make you think raptor as much as corvid, especially as they soar through the sky.  Highly intelligent and opportunistic, they are always on the lookout for their next meal.  A spiritual symbol for many peoples around the world, ravens hold a special place in our distinctive cultures.  The style of this particular painting was inspired by a pair of painted cedar fusuma (sliding doors) by Rinpa artist Watanabe Shiko.  Shiko simply painted directly on the wooden sliding doors at Daikaku-ji in Kyoto, and so I have painted my raven in a similar fashion, isolated but in harmony with the beauty of the wood grain.  The design for my raven was inspired by both Northwest Coast Native and Celtic art traditions.   I made the frame out of red oak using pegged, hand-joined, mortise-and-tenon construction methods.  I used the Japanese technique (shou-sugi-ban) of charring and oiling the oak to finish the frame.
 
DIMENSIONS:          HEIGHT:  15 inches
                                  WEIGHT:  11 1/8 inches

                                                            PRICE $280