“Silent Watcher” is an oil painting created over pure copper leaf, with an embossed texture beneath the surface that evokes cycles and continuity. The subject, a Northern Saw-whet Owl, is rendered in delicate detail as it gazes upward in quiet stillness. The luminous copper ground enhances both atmosphere and depth, underscoring the owl’s enduring symbolism of wisdom and awareness while highlighting the resilience found in nature’s smallest raptors.