Owl Rock 
Oil on canvas over board 73x122cm

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A limited run of large format prints is available here

I'd painted an owl some years back, and it felt like time to do another. Of all the animal subjects I think I like owls most. Not entirely sure why but there it is.

The first attempt was a good effort as paintings go but it wasn't what I wanted. So I decided to leave it be and move on to some more renditions of owls, and this is the one that came up next.

It's obviously more of a rock pillar than owl but even though the owl is pretty small it's still clearly a painting of an owl.

The pillar is based on a real rock feature in some exotic location on the planet, good enough to be a painting in its own right, but it's definitely the owl that gives it meaning.