Windhover
My heart in hiding stirred for a bird
The achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
Gerard Manley Hopkins knew his kestrels. The words of his famous poem come back to me whenever I watch kestrels hunting over nearby Swifts Hill. This piece now forms part of the collection of Nature in Art Museum & Gallery, near Gloucester.
Wall piece: fused and slumped wing forms with dichroic details mounted on fused and enamelled glass base with the words of the poem engraved as tail feathers.
45 x 45 cm