A new painting in ikon form of a raptor from sub-Saharan Africa. This remarkable bird has been trapped, not in mist nets or traps, but in pigments and gesso by the artist.

The hawk is depicted in the desert, in a wilderness not unlike the early Desert Fathers. In a manner quite unlike its characteristically haughty pose in the field, it is shown deferentially bowing – to what and to whom the hawk knows full well.

Egg tempera and gold on panel, 14.5 x18.5cm
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