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

Marsh Wrens are one of my favorite birds to watch; particularly when they are singing and in the Oregon spring they never seem to stop doing just that. The Lower Klamath Wildlife Refuge seems to have one of these industrious little wrens singing every five yards or so. They perch at the top of a reed and belt out their songs – which sound, to my ear anyways, a bit like a broken sewing machine. This was one of the first calls I learned as a child at the marsh, and is still to this day my favorite.

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.

All originals are then scanned, and I create high quality archival prints from those scans.