This listing is for an open edition Giclée Print of "Barn Owl" an original Gouache painting by Erin Linton. Your choice of 6x8, 8x10, 11x14, 16x20

Barn Owls are a very special bird for me. They represent sort of an in between. I see them often, in my periphery as the crepuscular light fades. It seems to me that they inhabit that space, the inward drawn breath between night and day. It makes them, in my mind, semi ethereal – just beyond knowing.
This Barn Owl was the very first painting I every did on teabags. I did my best to keep the paint layers translucent, allowing the stains on the teabags to show up through the painting in hopes that this would capture something of how they make me feel. Lucky to have caught a glimpse before they fade into the night.

I primarily paint portraits of the wildlife I encounter as a wildlife rehabber in Southern Oregon with gouache on a canvas layered with up-cycled pH treated tea bags. After being steeped and enjoyed, the teabags are dried and rinsed. The teabags are then soaked in a series of various baths, to remove acidity, and then rinsed and dried again. This tea bag background gives my original pieces a soft and warm feeling that I believe is very true to the animals I portray.

I scan my original pieces to achieve the best highest quality reproduction I can . I do all of my own giclée printing printing in house to insure each print meets my standards.