WHISPERS OF EARTH
Ephemeral Vapors
Mist in Morning
“Then he returns to the shadow of the branch. Dark and calm and present. We notice each other as the mist holds us both in the tapestry of the cloud forest.”
– Vanessa Violet
pen and ink
Contour line, stippling, and controlled scribble pen techniques
Masked Trogon perched on mossy branch with flying moths
12 x 12/18 x 18 prints
2025 Vanessa Violet
Council in the Canopy I
“This triptych follows him through a single display — three moments stretched across one continuous scene, the tree behind him bending subtly through time, surrealism emerging slowly in the undertone of the composition, revealed fully only when all three panels are present together.”
– Vanessa Violet
Pen and Ink
Contour line, controlled scribble, stippling
King-of-Saxony bird-of-paradise on tree
9 x 12/12 x 16/18 x 24 prints
2025 Vanessa Violet
Council in the Canopy II
“This triptych follows him through a single display — three moments stretched across one continuous scene, the tree behind him bending subtly through time, surrealism emerging slowly in the undertone of the composition, revealed fully only when all three panels are present together.”
– Vanessa Violet
Pen and Ink
Contour line, controlled scribble, stippling
King-of-Saxony bird-of-paradise on tree
9 x 12/12 x 16/18 x 24 prints
2025 Vanessa Violet
Council in the Canopy III
“This triptych follows him through a single display — three moments stretched across one continuous scene, the tree behind him bending subtly through time, surrealism emerging slowly in the undertone of the composition, revealed fully only when all three panels are present together.”
– Vanessa Violet
Pen and Ink
Contour line, controlled scribble, stippling
King-of-Saxony bird-of-paradise on tree
9 x 12/12 x 16/18 x 24 prints
2025 Vanessa Violet
Piercing Gaze
“A shadow cast across his brow like a judgment. Serious. Stoic. Proud.
The momemt hung in the air. “
– Vanessa Violet
Pen and Ink
Contour line, controlled scribble, stippling
Greater Coucal on tree
9 x 12/12 x 16/18 x 24 prints
2023 Vanessa Violet
Through the Poinciana Flowers I
“… jewel tones of emerald and topaz trailed with long pin feathers like my ink drawings themselves. Their essential nature already existing in the language of line and form.”
– Vanessa Violet
Pen and Ink
Contour line, controlled scribble, stippling
9 x 12/12 x 16/18 x 24 prints
2023 Vanessa Violet
Through the Poinciana Flowers II
“… jewel tones of emerald and topaz trailed with long pin feathers like my ink drawings themselves. Their essential nature already existing in the language of line and form.”
– Vanessa Violet
Pen and Ink
Contour line, controlled scribble, stippling
9 x 12/12 x 16/18 x 24 prints
2023 Vanessa Violet
Sentinel of Sky
“The stillness was an illusion and the sentidels of the sky revealed the truth to me. They were drawing its shape, tracing the thermal currents with their bodies, outlining what the eye alone could never see, drawing a picture with time as the medium.”
-Vanessa Violet
Pen and Ink
Contour line, controlled scribble, stippling
9 x 12/12 x 16/18 x 24 prints
2023 Vanessa Violet