This is bird note.

Artist Deborah Ramsey became fascinated with the way that birds and their colors mark changes in the seasons.

In her migration project, she painted species seen in the

changes in the seasons. In her migration project, she painted species seen in New York Central Park

creating an abstract design from the three main colors of each bird.

While the paintings ultimately are very abstract I am trying to stay faithful to that

particular species in the way I represent it.

Deborah layered colors into thick plexiglass panels,

so the paintings appear to change when seen from different angles.

And specifically in the Ruby Crown Kinglet,

they have a small patch of bright red

feather at the back of their head that is usually only revealed when the

bird is alarmed in some way.

For this particular painting,

you must get quite close up to it.

Then as you're sort of looking down

over the top of the panel this little red patch is visible.

There are plenty of great realistic depictions of birds out there, so Deborah wanted to offer something different.

By me choosing to abstract aspects of the bird,

it gives the viewer an opportunity to reflect or remember the time perhaps they saw that bird and they then

get to very personally complete the image.

See some of Deborah's artwork on our website,

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