This painting was chosen as the cover of the 2019 North Carolina Wildlife Calendar and I consider that to be among my greatest achievements in art.

This piece is among my paintings that experiment with elements hidden in plain sight. Although an alert Mockingbird is featured prominently, there are two egrets in the background of this piece that are more subtle than they appear in this photo. Roughly half of the people that view the painting don’t see them until I point them out. That is SO often the case in Nature in real life, too. In order to see what nature has to show us we need to be patient and still and let enough time pass for our eyes to be opened to what is right in front of us.

This is the original painting so there is only one.  It’s painted in acrylic on a 1 1/2” thick gallery wrapped canvas and the scene continues on the edges for a very finished look. No framing is needed, but if you like frames it can also be framed.  The size of this piece is 18” x 18”.