Cranes Dancing and Singing Original Sumi-e and verse by Lynne Gerard Here’s a colourful, uplifting piece featuring a pair of dancing Sandhill Cranes.   The cranes that return each spring to our Ravenseyrie Sorraia Mustang preserve can be observed dancing not just during breeding season, but all throughout their time here until they take their leave of Manitoulin Island in the autumn.  It is clear to me that the "singing" and dancing these birds engage in so frequently is often for pure enjoyment. These marvellous birds and their joie de vivre inspired me to write a new ditty to accompany this ink painting: When we dance,  When we sing,  We create a positive energy That sets the world right.         --L. Gerard This sumi-e painting is being presented unframed, accompanied by my hand-calligraphed poem, matted and mounted on Japanese washi paper and protected by a crystal clear plastic sleeve.  15 x 15 inches, $235 ravenseyriestudio@icloud.com

Close up detail of Pinstripes and Plaid / Portrait of Jamie Wyeth by Lynne Gerard I was in my early 20's when I was first exposed to the works of clan Wyeth and throughout the development of my career in painting, poetry and calligraphy their artful dynasty continues to be a source of delight and wonder for me.   Larger than life patriarch, N.C. Wyeth and his dynamic, dramatic, dazzling paintings captivate my imagination by taking me into faraway conjured landscapes.  Paintings by his son, Andrew, imprint themselves upon me in a much different way - through their tensions of strength and subtlety, subdued colours, technical virtuosity, so adeptly capturing the essences of things, whether they be landscapes or humans, in a manner that resonates with the emotional responses arising within me through my own habitual roamings through windswept fields.  And then we have the grandson, James (Jamie) - what an astounding amalgamation of familial influences he has had which year after year

  Raven / So Free to Be Original painting, poetry and calligraphy by Lynne Gerard Out and away, Among feathered friends And freshening winds, So free to breathe, So free to be.       -L. Gerard Sumi and Iroshizuku inks on Canaletto Grana Grossa paper made in Italy.  Mounted on Japanese washi paper.  Measures 12 x 22 inches.  Selling unframed in a protective clear sleeve.   $300 email:  ravenseyriestudio@icloud.com