https://michaelheffernanart.com 2026-04-03 daily 1.0 https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/image02.jpg https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery05/3c31aa6e.jpg "Spring's Slow Explosion of Pollen", 36" x 36", oil on canvas. On a recent walk along the Chattahoochee River, I rounded a bend and was blown away by the pollen swirling on the surface of a creek. The pollen and bacteria were so striking in their vibrancy. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery05/e2f394c1.jpg "The sullen, drowsy hang of a white-gray pigment holding sky and water, as one, floating in layers over the flat, blue-gray glassy stillness stained in the red-brown belly of its banks". From my poem Sky and Water As One. 36"x72" oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery05/7606e6bf.jpg Sky and Water, Sky and Earth as One III. 72x60, oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery05/b0583ad6.jpg Winter Sunrise. 36x36 inches, oil on canvas. The time of day when the moon gives way to a new sunrise. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery05/59245596.jpg Frozen. 36'x36" oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery05/0e6a71e6.jpg The Wind Sprang Up II, 30 x 40 inches, oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery05/cccb815f.jpg Autumnal Trail, 42X48 inches, oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery05/78ef4fb8.jpg Terrra Firma Series, The River Bank, 48x54, oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery05/f5176a4a.jpg Sky and Water, Sky and Earth as One. 40x40, oil and cold wax on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery05/7eaa92dc.jpg "wayfinding" 65" x 84", oil on canvas. This anchor painting is part of an ongoing body of work that explores the language of the Chattahoochee River and its microclimates as a metaphor in painting and poetry. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery05/fa85d285.jpg Sold https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery05/e5b4ff55.jpg Terra Firma IV, 36x36, oil and mixed media on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery05/4ebde370.jpg Terra Firma V, 36x36, oil and mixed media on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery05/1051f525.jpg Sky and Water, Sky and Earth as One II, 40x40 oil and cold wax on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery05/44527ace.jpg The Unfolding Riverbend. 40x40 inches, oil on Belgium linen. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery05/2cf9e61b.jpg The Banks. 65" x 74", acrylic on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/801d0d8c.jpg Distant Showers. The road from Killarney to Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland. 8" x 10", oil on cradled wood. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/1b1df8ea.jpg Frozen Sunrise. 11"x14", oil on Belgium linen. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/34ff54e4.jpg Inishmore, Aran Islands, County Galway, Ireland. 18x24 inches, oil on Belgium linen. (sold) https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/4816bb3a.jpg Aran Islands, County Galway, Ireland. 20x16 inches, Oil on Belgium linen. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/602ee5f2.jpg "Snow On Winter Marsh" 12x24 inches, oil on cradled wood panel. (sold) https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/388bf5b4.jpg Spring Beaver Dam, Chattahoochee River Creek. 24x24 Inches, oil on cradled wood panel. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/a2049ba5.jpg "Sky & Earth As One" 12x12 inches, oil on cradled panel. (sold) https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/0a5aba2e.jpg "Sky and Water, Sky and Earth As One" II, oil 12x12 inches, on cradled wood panel. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/c651ed10.jpg "Sky and Water, Sky and Earth as One III" 12x12 inches, oil on cradled wood panel. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/0fbdab3f.jpg "Sky and Water, Sky and Earth as One IV" 12x12 inches, oil on cradled wood panel. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/07b515a0.jpg "Kolb Farm Meadow" 8"x10" oil on linen, en plain air. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/98c44372.jpg "Jekyll Island" 8"x10" oil on linen, en plain air. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/ba69b627.jpg "Inlet" 24"x30" oil on canvas. (sold) https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/29cc95ad.jpg "The Banks IV" 12'x12', oil on Arches 350 gram watercolor paper. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/8abc6285.jpg 'The Banks II", 12"x12", oil on Arches 350 gram watercolor paper. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/9ef2ced9.jpg "Peonies V", 18"x18", oil on birch wood panel. (Sold) https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/373c1a96.jpg "Outer Banks", 22.5"x27", oil on canvas. Created from sketches done at the Outerbanks of North Carolina. (sold) https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/d3be6cf0.jpg "Kolb Farm" 18"x24", en plein air, oil on linen. (Sold) https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/5f132173.jpg "The Snow Is Falling" I, Series of charcoal drawings. 24x36" on 400LB. Arches Watercolr Paper. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/f9ff0211.jpg "The Snow Is Falling" II, 22x30" Charcoal on Arches Watercolor Paper. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/9375227d.jpg "The Snow Is Falling" III, 22x30 inches, charcoal on Arches 400 lb watercolor paper. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/6a590652.jpg "The Snow Is Falling" V, 22x30 inches, charcoal on 140 LB Arches watercolor paper. (sold) https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/eed88b9d.jpg "The Banks" A series of drawings and paintings. 22x30" Charcoal on Arches Watercolor paper. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/a19f4dc1.jpg "Morning Reflectioins" 22x30 inches, charcoal on 140 LB Arches watercolor paper. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/9bdaa2dd.jpg "Sky and water, sky and earth as one" 22x30 inches, charcoal on Arches 140 LB watercolor paper. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/1b7a8498.jpg Spanish Point, County Clare, Ireland. 24x48 oil on Belgium linen. Commissioned piece. (sold) https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/048554f6.jpg The Unfolding Riverbend Vi. 8" x 10", oil on wood panel. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery02/1297bfdc.jpg Late Frost. 8" x 10". oil on wood panel. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/c1c0f905.jpg "In The Shallow's Edge". Exploring light and reflection in the shallows along the river. 48"x72", acrylic, oil bar, archival adhesive, linen, oil paint, on heavyweight canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/bf9eefe7.jpg The river’s blue-green shift in the sun’s soft mist. 48" x 48", oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/f22ec702.jpg Sky and Water Sky, and Earth as One. 40' x 40" inches, oil and cold wax on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/b9abe9ce.jpg Sky and water, Sky and Earth as One, Series. Squall. 40x40 inches, oil and cold wax on canvas. It is based on my poem with the same title. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/dab94e5c.jpg Glory Blooms" 60x72 inches. Oil and mixed media on canvas. Part of the permanent collection at The Marietta Cobb Musem of Art, metro Atlanta, Georgia. This work serves as a meditation on the war in Ukraine and is based on my poem Glory Blooms. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/a3e2827d.jpg "The Gift of New Light" 48"x60" oil on canvas. (sold) https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/982a43e4.jpg "Ink-blue-black Dawn" 42"x42" oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/8b8fe7ce.jpg "Days Dawning" 89"x65.5" oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/3e078bc9.jpg "Modulating Banks" 40"x50" oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/9a89f07a.jpg "Rooks Murmured III" 42"x42" oil over mixed media on cradled wood panel. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/bbe2627e.jpg "Imagine", 54"x50", oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/d179bef6.jpg "Kites in the Wind", 43"x58", oil on canvas over wood panel with burlap. Poetry Series, based on my poem of the same name. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/070bdd14.jpg Riverscape study II, 12x12 inches, oil on Arches paper. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/e39ec230.jpg "Kites in the Wind" is 60x60 inches in mixed media and oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/48402e0d.jpg "The Scullery of Humanity" is a 48x48" oil and mixed media painting on a three-inch-deep cradled wood panel, the left side of a diptych. Please take a look at the next post for the right side. Created during the pandemic. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/2f171560.jpg "The Scullery of Humanity" 48x48 inches, right side wood panel, see previous post. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/0fc2f229.jpg "The Scullery of Humanity" is a 48x96-inch oil and mixed-media diptych on a three-inch-deepnel diptych. Cre cradled wood paated during the pandemic, it is a meditation on all that happened during that period. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/44d95899.jpg Sky and Water, Sky and Earth as One, series. 36x36 oil and burlap on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery04/929de16d.jpg Riverscape study. Snowfall. 12x12 inches, oil on Arches paper. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/image03.jpg https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/image09.jpg https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/image05.jpg https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/image10.jpg https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/6f8d5912.jpg "Glory Blooms" 60"x72" oil and mixed media on canvas. Based on my poem of the same name about the start of the war in Ukraine. Now part of the permanent collection at Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, Georgia, USA. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/7c56b147.jpg Peony's III, 36"x48", oil on wood panel. Love Undying Series, based on my poem of the same name. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/94fd0cd8.jpg "Rooks Murmured" 60"x60" mixed media on stretched canvas. Part of The Peterson Private Collection. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/d2676f08.jpg "Dick's Creek" 16"x20", en plein air, oil on linen. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/90e43043.jpg Vickery Creek, Roswell Georgia. 16"x20", en plein air, oil on linen. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/161c947f.jpg 36"x48", oil on canvas commission. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/1b4dbdf6.jpg "Outer Banks" 36" x 60", oil on linen, commission. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/b4109ccc.jpg 40"x40" oil and cold wax on canvas. The Banks Series. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/974e5f5c.jpg "North Carolina Marsh" 36"x36", oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/d03f66a4.jpg "Curracloe Beach, Ireland, 8"x16", oil on cradled wood panel. En plein air. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/f06297e2.jpg 36"x48" oil on linen, commission. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/8e2ac764.jpg "Kolb Farm Thistle" 40"x40", oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/118877b1.jpg Commisioned work, 40"x40", oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/3e0b5ac9.jpg "Kolb Farm Thistle", water color sereis. 24"x36" on arches 340 gram watercolor paper. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/ce59ca46.jpg "In the shallows", 48"x48", diptych, oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/800fffa5.jpg "Summerhill", 40"x50", oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/2d6933f8.jpg "Jekyll Island", 36'x36', oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/83ef2435.jpg "Low Country", 40"x40", oil on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/769f61c6.jpg 36"x60", oil on canvas. Commission. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/0fc1bd5c.jpg "Subterranean Pond", 48"x60", oil on canvas https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/5ba25044.jpg "Through the Marsh", 48"x48", acrylic on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/55fc4ee0.jpg 40"x40", oil and cold wax on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/2590c29a.jpg "Subterranean Pond II", 40"x40", acrylic on canvas. https://michaelheffernanart.com/assets/images/gallery01/eb8af0ba.jpg "Nocternal Marsh", 48"x72", oil on canvas.