A new painting in ikon form of a raptor from sub-Saharan Africa, the Dark Chanting Goshawk. 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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