An original 12" x 12" mixed media painting utilizing collage, graphite, acrylic, and blockprinting, When Kingfishers Catch Fire ships unframed on a wooden panel.
 
A multilayered composition inspired by a Gerard Manly Hopkins poem with so many details to discover including decorative papers, collage, and childrens' drawings. 
 
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
 
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; 
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells 
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's 
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; 
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: 
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; 
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, 
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came. 
 
I say móre: the just man justices; 
Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces; 
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is — 
Chríst — for Christ plays in ten thousand places, 
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his 
To the Father through the features of men's faces.