Birds and Nests | Maryclare Heffernan

• Sweet Carolina

  Oil, Panel, 6 x 6. One of the sweetest birds at the backyard feeder are the Carolina Wrens. Don't you agree?

• In Winter Wonder

  Oil, Linen on panel, 10 x 8. I wonder if the winter birds have any idea how much beauty and joy they bring just by being here with us? Not that it matters. We know.

• Starry Night

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 6". What would magic be without birds...and snow, and a full moon.

• Just To Be Alive

  Mixed Media, Arches 300 lb. cold press, 16 x 20. The words of poet Mary Oliver speak to me over and over again. Her carefully chosen words make large imprints on my heart and mind. This is one of those poems that felt e…

• Enduring

  Oil, Canvas, 36 x 38. The intricate and enduring bird nests I've been so grateful to collect are magnificent in their intricacy and courageous in their design and durability. Gallery Wrapped Oil 36x36.

• Meditation With a Downy Woodpecker

  Oil, Paper, 10 x 8. Meditation I forgot to meditate this morning. And yesterday. And, if I’m being completely honest, the day before that. But I did stand at the kitchen window, watching the downy woodpecker efficiently…

• Tiny Haven

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. The tiniest nest is sometimes all we need.

• Enduring

  Oil, Canvas, 36 x 36 x 2. The intricate and enduring bird nests I've been so grateful to collect are magnificent in their intricacy and courageous in their design and durability. Gallery Wrapped Oil 36x36.

• From the Hydrangea Tree

  Oil on linen panel, Linen on panel, 8 x 10. The holidays arrive despite the fact I haven't turned the page on the kitchen calendar since September. But tonight a little oil painting of a bird's nest. The nest a gift fro…

• Precious

  Oil, Linen on panel, 8 x 10. Yesterday, when the house was empty again, I found an abandoned bird's nest in one of our old bayberry bushes. It's weathered, filled with tiny bits of leaves and broken twigs. But oh so bea…

• Siblings

  Oil, Linen on panel, 10 x 8. Finding a nest full of eggs is discovering hope all over again.

• Waiting For You

  Oil, Linen on panel, 20 x 16. Every little nest reminds us that we are all just beginning.

• Tender One

  Oil, Linen on panel, 10 x 8. Bird's nest painted on a very snowy day in late March. The daffodils and birds are baffled. And even though we shouldn't be, we are too.

• Sweet Shelter

  Oil, Linen on panel. The little old barn attached to our house in NH has nested barn swallows for years. They build the sturdiest shelters of mud and straw, patched with moss, tucked into an eve with a view of the yard.…

• Ardeidae

  Oil, Canvas, 9 H x 12 W. I have always loved the graceful herons. Like a prehistoric creature that chose to stay behind after the dinosaurs left to see what happens next. Simply spotting a heron feels a bit magical, as…

• Persistence

  Oil, Paper, 22 H x 30 W. Persistence ~ That soul's desire to go on in the face of obstacles set before us. This piece is oil on 140 lb. cold press Arches oil paper.

• Fly Away With Me

  Watercolor, Arches 300 lb. cold press, 18 H x 28 W

• Incubate

  Watercolor, Arches 300 lb. cold press, 14H x 11W. The tangle of grasses, reeds, twigs, leaves and a bit of blue ribbon and a bird's nest is a perfect incubator for the delicate eggs that lay there. I am drawn to these i…

• Waiting For Lunch

  Watercolor, Paper, 11 x 14. I love birds and I love watercolor. They are both elusive, fluid and flit in and out of our view with a blink of the eye. Sparrow in watercolor.

• Sanctuary

  Pencil, ink, oil, Paper, 15 x 22. As we welcome this new and hopeful year we know that the birds will weave their magic and we will too.

• Waiting For Spring

  Oil, Paper, 15 x 10. The daffodils are trying hard to grow, the forsythia branches I brought inside bloomed thanks to the furnace. Spring's elusive here in the northeast and my walk to look for signs of new life found o…

• Devined Design

  Pencil, ink, oil, Paper, 22 x 30

• Spencer-Pierce Little Farm Rooster

  Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 11

• Tender One

  Pencil, ink, oil, Paper, 14 x 11

• The Sweetest Shelter

  Watercolor and ink, Paper, 38 x 26

• Waiting For Dinner

  Oil, Linen on panel, 12 x 9

• Sheltered

  Watercolor and ink, Paper. Matted, before framing.

• We'll Be Back

  Watercolor, Arches 300 lb. cold press, 16 x 24. There was something so tender about these two crows I painted during early spring this year when COVID-19 captured our lives and questioned our future. This watercolor was…

• Soft Landing

  Watercolor, Paper, 30 x 22. Giclee prints available.

• Sheltered In Place

  Pen and Oil, Paper, 8 x 10. This work was completed during the early days of the COVID-19 shutdown when so many aspects of life felt unstable and uncertain. Finding comfort in the beauty of a bird's nest and the hope of…

• Blue Bird ~ Happiness

  Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 11

• Scout

  Oil, Canvas, 10 x 8