Joshua Durant

Through out my life I have felt a deep connection with birds. As a child I spent my days searching out hawks and many other interesting bird species native to the area I grew up in. I have been rendering birds in many different mediums as far back as I can remember. As I grew older I began to realize my love for painting and decided that this would be the direction I wanted pursue. I am deeply intrigued by the symbolism and spiritual nature that birds carry and chose to use them as my focus of subject matter within my art. Birds are sensitive to their environment. These days we need to take heed the subtle messages they are sending us about the changes we need to make in the way we treat this planet that all of us live in.
Currently I am producing a series based on "Birds in Decline" as well as a more expressionistic series of birds where my subjects appear to be exploding or dispersing into space releasing their energetic souls from this reality.