North American Robin with Apple Blossom — Framed Piece Frame:White eyes open to a world

eyes open to a world it has just discovered — sits among purple violets

the background dissolved to a soft blue

the vertical bars of the muskie's flank vivid against the green of the water

The iridescent green and purple of the head

and placed his cardinals honestly within it

North American Robin with Apple Blossom — Framed Piece Frame:White eyes open to a worldA Robin in full song on an apple blossom branch the orange red breast vivid against the white and pink of the flowers, the bill open, the eye bright. This is a painting about the moment when Canadian spring fully arrives: when the Robins are singing and the apple trees are in bloom simultaneously, that particular week in May that feels like the year's most optimistic promise. The apple blossoms are botanically precise, the Robin anatomically exact.