New Originals | The Harvest Owl
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The harvest moon has come, vast and amber, and beneath it — silent and ghostly, the owl begins to hunt.
This is the world of The Harvest Owl: my latest collection of thirteen small original paintings, each one painted on panel in acrylic and mixed media, rich in texture, atmosphere, and faux gold leaf that catches the last of the evening light.
But this collection means something more to me than most.
Nearly a year ago, a series of accidents set in motion a long and difficult journey — one that culminated in major eye surgery. For an artist, there is perhaps no more frightening prospect than uncertainty about sight. The months that followed have been ones of waiting, of stillness, of learning to be patient with a body that needed time to heal.
These thirteen panels are what has come after. They are, in every sense, a return — a first breath back in the studio, a hand relearning the weight of a brush, eyes finding colour and light again. The owl, hunting through the descending dusk, felt like the right companion for that kind of emergence: a creature of the threshold, moving from darkness toward something luminous.
I have always been drawn to the in-between moments — dusk, dawn, the turning of seasons — when the familiar world becomes something stranger and more beautiful. But painting this series, I felt that quality more keenly than ever. Each small panel became a kind of meditation on seeing: on the gift of light, on texture and atmosphere, on the way gold leaf shifts and catches as the eye moves across it.
These are works to live with. To place on a shelf or a windowsill and return to, finding something new each time the light falls differently across them.
All thirteen originals are available now, unframed and ready to travel to their new homes.