Tanya Zafirovic oil paintings · sweden
Spirit of the North by Tanya Zafirovic: A woman with long blonde hair, in a gown of brown and silver feathers, stands in a snowy winter forest at dusk; a small owl rests at her face and a pale sun glows between the bare trees.

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Chapter I · Winter Tales

Spirit of the North

I love owls. To me, they represent wisdom, freedom, and fierceness. While painting this painting I sat up several late nights in a row, when one night I heard an owl hooting in a nearby tree. It was such a lonesome sound. By the second night, he was back hooting in our garden. On the third night, he sat there hooting while I was painting when suddenly there was a second owl answering his cry – he was no longer alone.

Tanya
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
80 × 60 cm
Original
Original in a private collection

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Spirit of the North by Tanya Zafirovic: A woman with long blonde hair, in a gown of brown and silver feathers, stands in a snowy winter forest at dusk; a small owl rests at her face and a pale sun glows between the bare trees.