This painting is a tribute to my late friend Leonard Cohen and a song he wrote known as "Bird on the Wire". I knew Leonard from Hydra island, Greece where he wrote this song in the 1960s. The silhouette is Leonard. I used a page on "Eggs of Central European Song-Birds" from Chambers's 1924 Encyclopaedia as a reference. I like to mix surface textures.
The numbers relate to important dates in Leonard's life.
This painting was exhibited in RECLAIM August 2022 at Newcastle Art Space (NAS) NSW