Artist reception will be held 9/28, 3:00-5:00. The public is welcome!
Studio Migrations: Bird paintings by Timothy Achor-Hoch |
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| I’ve been a birder since the mid-1980s. Gathering photographic reference gets me out of the house, into the woods, and onto the marshes and beaches. It teaches me to listen and observe. The pleasure I get from birding migrates easily to the studio. I paint these birds to share a little of that joy with you. One motivation for this series is the increasing scarcity of these species and how precious they have become. Thinking about the dangerous journeys these migrants make each spring and fall is inspiring.
Shorebirds and grassland birds show the deepest decline. Seeing them now is a privilege that I hope we can preserve. There are certain easy steps we can take to check these birds’ decline, but the pressures on them are very real. Painting birds may seem like a way to hold onto them—but that’s hardly a conservation strategy. For me, painting each singing beak and display feather brings beauty into my world. I would like to share my enthusiasm for that with you. Before we lose something this precious, let’s take some time to see it. My hope is that together we can plan a way to preserve birds for future generations |
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About the Artist
I grew up in Pennsylvania, where I also went to art school (A.A. Art Institute of Pittsburgh) and college (B.A. Juniata College). Besides birds, my obsessions over the years have included social justice/ideological pluralism (which led to my art director job at Bread for the World in Washington, D.C.), fly fishing (which led to my art director job at the Orvis Company in Manchester, Vermont), and skateboarding (which led to no jobs but didn’t keep me from landing the ones I got). I started FishCrow Studio in 2020 and have been pursuing my art full time since.