"Beloved" Giclee Fine Art Paper Print Store This deck of cards documents

This deck of cards documents a ten year journey into the unknown

"Rose Round" 8" Round Oil painting on cradled Birch Board

and I threw in the bear just because I love bears and their peacefulness

It was started as a live painting at a small event in Portland…that was in January 2025

The real story is this painting started with the title

"Beloved" Giclee Fine Art Paper Print Store This deck of cards documents"Beloved" 12x16 giclee paper print I started this piece at Beloved festival in the summer of 2018. Up in the Pacific Northwest of Washington State there had been a major news story unfolding in the daily headlines: a mother orca whale had given birth to a live baby after many unsuccessful births before. This one was born alive but died soon afterwards. The mother, known as J35, or Tahlequah carried her dead calf on her nose for 17 days in a grieving