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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Artwork framed.
- Dimensions : 31.5x39.4in
About this artwork
I sat here and ate my lunch while watching a pair of kestrels. Gerard Manley Hopkins captures how I feel about this kestrel in his poem of the same name. I love the colours in this painting and put a lot of work into the detail. You will need to look hard to find the mate.
“I caught this morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High… there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! Then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate’s heel swoops smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird, - the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!”
“I caught this morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High… there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! Then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate’s heel swoops smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird, - the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!”
Chris Edwards
United Kingdom
Chris Edwards, a dedicated painter with formal training from Redruth Art School and Eton Hall, brings her deep connection to the Cornish landscape into her oil paintings. She masterfully blends realism with expressive atmosphere, often incorporating cold wax and celebrating accidental effects for mesmerizing detail and texture. Through her luminous depictions of nature, she conveys a sense of wonder, peace, and the subtle tension of underlying forces, inviting viewers to experience both the beauty and the emotional complexity of the natural world.
Chris Edwards
Windhover
$5,020