Taking Flight

Taking Flight

Size: 16 x 20 inches Medium: Original Oil on Canvas

This piece came from one of those small moments in everyday life when a bird suddenly takes off and, for a second, everything else disappears. I have always loved noticing birds during walks and travels around Canada, especially the way their colours and personalities only really reveal themselves when you stop to look.

The magpie is captured mid-flight, surrounded by branches and fragments of colour, almost as if the world around it is moving with it. I wanted the piece to hold onto that brief feeling of freedom and movement that is so easy to miss in an ordinary day.