Governor's Show

"Ascension" 

 

 

 

30x40

 

This is one of four paintings I will have at the Colorado Governor's Show, Loveland, CO, opening in late April.  I was plein air painting outside Jackson Hole Wyoming overlooking the Gros Ventre River last summer during the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters annual event, as an osprey circled above, ascending higher and higher into the clouds and blue sky, until finally disappearing into the vastness that is his home. What would take me an hour to travel he covered in minutes, silently and with grace.  I think that's one of the reasons I love painting birds, there is a grace about them, an honesty in their existence that transcends anything of which we as humans are capable.