Atlantic Forest Tree "Acoita cavalo," 2025, watercolors and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

Atlantic Forest Tree "Acoita cavalo," 2025, watercolors and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

Violet Euphonia Male and Female, 2025, watercolors and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

Violet Euphonia Male and Female, 2025, watercolors and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

Parrotlets, 2020, watercolor and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

Parrotlets, 2020, watercolor and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

Seven-colored Sairas, 2020, watercolors and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

Seven-colored Sairas, 2020, watercolors and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

2020, watercolors and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

2020, watercolors and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

Wolf Fruit, 2022, watercolors and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

Wolf Fruit, 2022, watercolors and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

Red Passionflower, 2022, watercolors and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

Red Passionflower, 2022, watercolors and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

White Passionflower, 2022, watercolors and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

White Passionflower, 2022, watercolors and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

Orchids, 2020, watercolors and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

Orchids, 2020, watercolors and colored pencils on paper, 18 x 24"

The paintings are of plants and birds of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. More will be added as they are completed.

An upcoming artist residency, to which I have been invited by the Antonelli Foundation, will take place in April-May 2026 at the Foundation’s Araça project in the Organ Mountains of Rio de Janeiro. It will allow me to continue making images of another area of this fascinating ecological domain.