Graceful & Fierce (Print)

Fine art print on of an original graphite drawing. 12"x15". Signed limited edition of 10.

All of my reverence is held for the Great Blue Heron today. The stoic sentinels of our great shifting rivers and wetlands. My heart swells when I reflect on their grace, power, and the stillness in their ever-focused gaze.

"When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
-Wendell Barry

Printed on archival and acid-free cotton paper. Ships flat.