With Musical Notations by Andrew Maxfield
Charcoal on Staff Paper — 8.75” x 12.5” (Framed: 18” x 24”)
Artist Statement:
Influenced by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge's "The Blue Bird," this drawing captures a fleeting moment of ethereal beauty and reflection. The figures evoke the bird's delicate presence and swift passage. Their fluid gestures suggest the bird's flight across the still water, its image mirrored in the blue of the lake and sky. My hope is to translate the poem's serene imagery, emphasizing the ephemeral nature of beauty and its transient appearance in our world.
With Musical Notations by Andrew Maxfield
Charcoal on Staff Paper — 8.75” x 12.5” (Framed: 18” x 24”)
Artist Statement:
Influenced by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge's "The Blue Bird," this drawing captures a fleeting moment of ethereal beauty and reflection. The figures evoke the bird's delicate presence and swift passage. Their fluid gestures suggest the bird's flight across the still water, its image mirrored in the blue of the lake and sky. My hope is to translate the poem's serene imagery, emphasizing the ephemeral nature of beauty and its transient appearance in our world.
The Blue Bird / L’oiseau bleu (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge)
The lake lay blue below the hill.
O'er it, as I looked, there flew
Across the waters, cold and still,
A bird whose wings were palest blue.
The sky above was blue at last,
The sky beneath me blue in blue.
A moment, ere the bird had passed,
It caught his image as he flew.
