- Brandy Saturley
- Northern Messenger, c. 2025
- Acrylic On Canvas
- 18 x 36 x 1.5 in (45.72 x 91.44 x 3.81 cm)
- Inv: NORTHERN-2500-2025
- C$2,500
A woman stands in the open hush of a snow-covered landscape, her gaze steady beneath the warm weight of a fur hat. The sky behind her glows in a blaze of orange, as if the sun has cracked open the horizon and spilled its last light across a range of deep blue mountains.
Cutting across her face is a Canada goose in full flight, its wing sweeping across the canvas like a living brushstroke. The bird becomes a kind of envoy, threading the wild world directly through her line of sight, binding her to the land and the long migratory stories carried on beating wings. Her embroidered coat pulses with reds and blues, an echo of heartlines and northern weather.
The result is part portrait, part vision: a moment where human presence and the instinctive rhythm of the natural world meet in an unexpected alignment. The goose becomes the messenger, the woman the witness, and the landscape a silent accomplice to their fleeting connection.
- Subject Matter: still life
- Collections: Recent Paintings