Painting: 8.5 x 17.5”, Matted to 13.5 x 21”, Watercolor on Cold Press

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Every species has its champion, its Queen. The Queen of Bees is a warm, vibrant yet soft presence, drifting gracefully through her subjects as she celebrates their beauty. When she calls to them they rise around her in a whirlwind of buzzing, wings beating furiously and striped bodies flashing by in a joyous blur. She dances with them, sings their humming songs, and cradles their featherlight bodies when they fall.

She is fading from our world along with her people, becoming a little more translucent, a little more ghostly as they die one by one. Soon she'll be nothing more than a wisp, a fluttering breath of warm air on the breeze, but she'll stay until the final bee perishes-

And then she'll be gone forever.