Plowed Field - Snowy Owl by Robert Bateman

Plowed Field - Snowy Owl by Robert Bateman

 

Published in 1987

 

"The snowy owl breeds in the Arctic and comes down to the more southern latitudes most winters. They tend to stay in wintery countryside rather than go all the way to the southern states, but the countryside is often snow-covered farmland in southern Canada and the northern United States.

When the snow covers the plowed field, it helps to emphasize all the shapes and forms that have been created in an apparently haphazard fashion. These are the kinds of accidental rhythms and patterns I enjoy painting. It is also the kind of place that a snowy owl might be found looking for a meal of a mouse." - R. Bateman