Two Swans, pastel study, 13” x 19”, 2010
La Vida es Sueno, oil on linen, 52 x 44 inches, 2011
The King, 12 x 12 inches, oil on canvas, 2023
Habitat, watercolor, 10 x 10 inches, 2020
In 2014 the New York State Department of Conservation advanced a plan to exterminate the mute swan from New York State. I have always been captivated by the beauty, strength and grace of these majestic birds. They also have personal meaning for me as I used various memories of swans as meditation images when I was undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. If there are such things as spirit animals, these are mine. There was a large outcry against the DEC’s plan, and it appears to have been shelved for the moment, and I hope forever.