Gallery

• Recent Work / Older Work

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  Dowitcher Flock

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  Flock of 57

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  Godwits In Flight

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  Gray Morning Light, Flock of 35

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  Soft Sky Flight

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  Moving As One

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  Moving As One, Large Tern Group

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  Sandpipers Airborne

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  Tern Group, Mauve Sky

These works capture the abstract patterns created by birds in a moment of flight while keeping them in a real and distant space. The limited palette and pebbly surface suggest that birds and sky are inextricable, almost dissolving into one another, while at the same time the geometry of shifting lights and darks gives a sense of movement.

Migrating birds seem to me a poignant reminder of the earth’s life cycles, and, in a metaphorical sense, the strength of the whole as a sum of parts. When I am working my studio, looking carefully at each individual bird in the context of a community, my mind drifts to other groups getting from one place to another, seeking refuge, or the right to survive. I feel the paintings asking: will we get where we need to go?

~ Gina Sawin