Male cardinals always appear quietly fierce, with their inquisitive and defined heads and beaks. When they do break their silence, they have a rhythmic and piercing call. Compared to the neutral plumage of their female counterparts, the male cardinal is a red beacon, gleaming amongst the surrounding environment. It is no surprise that such a glowing vision needs to have a militant quality about their demeanour. This piece displays the intensity of the cardinal in saturated pigments of quinacridone red, and napthol red. His fiery figure is poised against a cloudy sky, dense with titan violet grey paint.

Original Size: 12″ x 12″

Jeff Dillon the Canadian Artist, inspired by the bold colours and brush strokes of Post-Impressionist Artists. His unique style focuses on capturing light, not through the detail of realism, but with gesture, illusion, shape and colour. He offers a personal and distinctive style to the world through his bold use of colours and lines, often symbolic images or subject matter. Objects in the paintings retain their realistic appearance yet have a vibrancy and fluidity about them, unique to his work. Jeff Dillon’s new expression of Post-Impressionism is both beloved and revered in the Canadian and Global Contemporary Art World.

• Reference photo provided by Michèle Lymburner
• Limited Edition Prints are limited to an edition of 100. The accompanying Certificate of Authenticity is also hand-signed and numbered by the artist.
• Original completed August 2019
• Search words: Bird, Brown, Grey, Green, Tree, branch