“Raven”

Ravens have always fascinated me—clever, playful, and never quite what they seem. In many traditions the raven is a messenger between worlds, a keeper of secrets and a symbol of transformation, a reminder that something new is always taking shape in the dark. I wanted this raven to be more than black. Up close, his feathers hold deep blues and violets that shift as the light moves across them, the way a real raven’s do when he turns his head. His eye is the one warm note in the painting: a quiet, knowing look upward, as if he’s listening for something the rest of us can’t hear yet.