Blackbird (Sold)
30” x 60” | Oil on canvas

I named this painting after the song Blackbird by the Beatles! There is so much in the lyrics of that song that explain my journey in painting. Years ago, I suffered a heartbreak that was one of the worst pains of my life, but something happened through that experience. I discovered a version of myself I had never know, I discovered my art which I didn’t know existed inside me. Art helped me “take up my broken wings and learn to fly” during that season. When this painting hit the scene, it was my most popular work and sold shortly after I painted it.

Blackbird lyrics: “Blackbird singing in the dead of night, take these broken wings and learn to fly, all my life, you were only waiting for this moment to arise”

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