Heron in Saltwater Marsh

A New Work by Nancy Hammond

This heron is full height which stretches out his neck and body and makes him long and lean.

  He is in the company of a spiky plant, an umbrella sedge.

(I’ve seen this sedge plant in both brackish water and freshwater marshes.)

It has shoots that look like a broken umbrella.

This is a study of graceful verticals which fill the page.

The neutral spaces, (the air) is an important component of this sparse painting.

-Nancy Hammond