Langham Collection — Great Blue Heron Oh To Fly Embark on a serene journey

Embark on a serene journey along the water's edge with an original shorebird watercolor painting from my 'Shoreline Spirits' collection

Rhode Island studio on archival cotton rag paper

until the eyes became the undeniable center of the composition

and distinctive dark central breast spot make them easy to identify and satisfying to paint

Langham Collection — Great Blue Heron Oh To Fly Embark on a serene journeyThis 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.