BLANCHE - Portrait of a SNOWY owl is one of a series of large Owl portraits.
Snowy Owls have been categorized as ‘globally vulnerable’ due to warming temperatures, the reduction of food sources, road fatalities and industrial objects such as machinery, telegraph wires, propeller blades and flare stacks.
In the painting, I use a thin paper barrier of dress making pattern tissue against the coarser texture of the canvas. I enjoy the way this surface takes paint and the underlying geometry it creates.