Langham Collection — Great Blue Heron Oh To Fly until the eyes became the

until the eyes became the undeniable center of the composition

Pastel's tactile quality gives the feathers a physical presence that invites close viewing

not dancing

Rhode Island studio on archival cotton rag paper

Langham Collection — Great Blue Heron Oh To Fly until the eyes became theThis Langham Collection bird print comes from a body of work I created for The Langham Hotel Boston a two year collaboration that placed my watercolors in the hotels guest rooms as permanent art in residence. The Langham selected four species blue jay, tree swallow, great blue heron, and belted kingfisher for their connection to New Englands natural landscape, and I painted each one specifically for the intimate scale and quiet light of a hotel room.