Stillness. Assured. - Mixed media on mounted panel – 29 x 15 cm

In the studio today, finalizing a few pieces for the upcoming Art in the Country — amidst a gentle kind of chaos and a beautiful gesture of Mother’s Day blooms — this small, newly completed work.

This surface has held many narratives over the years. A figure has often moved through a wooded space here — cloaked, most often in red — always in motion, always walking away.

But a few weeks ago, I reached the end of that particular visual language. The motif of the “journey through the forest” no longer felt true. I removed the departing figure and, in her place, introduced this one.

Uncloaked. Grounded. Bearing a single, weathered wing.

She stands. Facing forward. Resolved. Unapologetic.

There’s a stillness in her presence — the kind that arrives only after the passage.

There’s something in her that feels complete to me. Quiet. Certain.