Sombras Blancas

After spending so much time with the pigeons in my balcony this spring, it was about time I painted some of my shimmering friends. This painting is a little homage to those quiet moments when we have stopped what we were doing and looked at each other for a while, wondering what that other creature could possibly be thinking, before continuing with our own businesses.

Happy 100th birthday, Sir David Attenborough!

This mushroom commission is moving to Australia on Monday!

“Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferment alcohol, plant a plant, or just bury your hands in the soil; and whether you let a fungus into your mind, or marvel at the way that it might enter the mind of another. Whether you’re cured by a fungus, or watch it cure someone else; whether you build your home from fungi, or start growing mushrooms in your home, fungi will catch you in the act. If you’re alive, they already have.”

“No one owns an entire landscape, and yet nothing gives you a greater sense of possession of yourself than contemplating what is infinitely greater than you.” — Joaquín Araújo (Los árboles te enseñarán a ver el bosque)

The first time you see how a bullfinch shines through the leaves, you will never forget. This little one is now available in the shop

I started sketching this invocation way before the storms were over, so there's little doubt the art witchery worked as it should. You can see it in the video: she is all shiny and golden and full of bliss.

In the tarot tradition, The Sun (XIX) is the premier card of positivity, success, and vitality in the Major Arcana, representing joy, clarity, and radiant energy

If your first hardcover book without illustrations on every page was The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, you’ll still be searching for that spark in every corner of life many years later

I love this idea of restocking birds whenever I sell out a species. This blackbird in an orange tree was born this weekend, after I sold a fellow blackbird from 5 years ago this month. Looking at my wall, I see I'm low on goldfinches, blue tits, hoopoes, magpies and many others that haven't flown in before. By the way, this new outlined style is growing on me