“Custom Bank Barn Timbers with a Nesting Barn Owl”

by Harvey Bodach

Original Unframed Painting done with Acrylics on Masonite Board

40” x 18”

With Oak Wood Floating Frame

42” x 20”

Completion Year - 2020

No HST

For Limited Time Only

European immigrants from 19th the century brought to North America the skills of Bank Barn construction. Today these structures are disappearing, especially within the Canadian landscape. With their destruction Barn Owls which developed a complimentary relationship with farmers, are now an endangered species. Nesting in recesses of farm buildings, its white and yellowish rusty orange plumage help it blend perfectly into surroundings.

This frame construction reveals old traditions of using Broad and Adzes Axes for shaping logs into square beams. Builders recorded completion by nailing dates onto timbers like this barn near Cathcart, Ontario, built in 1862, demolished in 2015.

(Scientific Name: Tyto alba)

Giclée Signed and Numbered Limited Edition Prints of painting are also available

AWARD WINNING PAINTING

Painting places SECOND in “Animalis” 2021 Juried/Sale Exhibition with Federation of Canadian Artists

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