A Storm of Arrows, A Silence of Wings
Available at The Epperson Gallery
Oil on Canvas, 48” x 48” x 1.5”, 2026.
There is the storm. And then there is the silence after — or before. A Storm of Arrows, A Silence of Wings lives in that suspended breath between them.
This painting grew out of the same sky as Hawks and Arrows Fill the Sky — the same inquiry into natural force and the force we inflict, the same charged coexistence of living things and made things moving through shared air. But where that work is expansive, a 6-foot sky generous enough to hold everything in harmony, this one is concentrated. Smaller, more urgent. The sky here is not open and diffuse — the light is breaking through, hard-won, cutting through storm and grey-blue to find a single moment of crystalline stillness.
At 4 by 4 feet, this painting doesn't surround you. It faces you. It asks you to stand in front of a sky mid-storm and hold still long enough to find the quiet inside it.
Because it is there. Beneath the restlessness, beneath the arrows and the wingbeats and the turbulent air, something is settling. The force is real, but so is the silence that follows. This painting is about that moment when the two are indistinguishable — when you cannot yet tell if the storm is arriving or passing, only that the light has found a way through.
