Flying between the cold moon and the earth | 2022

Original artwork by Sharon Field 

Flying between the cold moon and the earth, watercolour, graphite and gouache, 15cm x 15cm (image), 2022. Framed size: 33.5cm x 33.5cm, black mat and black frame.

These words were spoken by Oberon, from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. I often find just the wing from a Common Brown Butterfly in the garden, and I wonder whether the other wing is drifting toward the moon, like Cupid, as seen by Oberon. SF