Goldfinch

Medium: Silhouette paper-cut. Cut by hand using a scalpel.

Dimensions: Unframed size: approx. 25 x 25 cm

Date: March 2010

Comments:
A vignette illustration for Birdbook, an anthology of bird poetry (published 2011, by Sidekick Books)

Due to its fondness for eating the seeds of prickly thistles and thorns, the goldfinch is

symbolically linked with Christ's suffering, hence the border imagery of the 'Crown of Thorns'.



Price: £SOLD. In a private collection in Eye, England.