Bachman's Warbler Kamisaka Sekka honoring the original on stretched

honoring the original on stretched cotton canvas

The palette leans into the unhurried end of the colour spectrum: soft ochres

Produced as an archival fine art print on 225g matte paper

Silhouette Branches reduces a natural form to its most graphic essentials — branches stripped of leaf and colour

the image gains the warmth and surface texture that suits Koson’s painterly sensibility

Bachman's Warbler Kamisaka Sekka honoring the original on stretchedBachman's Warbler one of North America's rarest and most mourned birds is documented here with the care and attention it deserves. This vintage ornithological illustration follows the conventions of the great 19th century natural history plates: the bird placed in natural attitude against a simply rendered branch and foliage, its markings set down with the patient accuracy of a naturalist who understood that fidelity to detail was itself a form of