Dramatic landscape showing birds in flight from an approaching storm, executed in the difficult aquatint medium by renown contemporary Canadian artist, Allen Smutylo.

This is an early print, done when Smutylo would have been in his mid-late twenties. Per an e-mail from Smutylo: "The etching is from the early 70's, a big storm I witnessed coming over the waters of Dorcas Bay one night. A."

Pencil signed lower right: Allen Smutylo

Pencil titled: "Ominous Storm"

Edition numbered lower left: 21/40

Smutylo was born in Ontario in 1946. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1970. He is an avid sea-kayaker and spends part of each summer in the Arctic with his kayak. He has exhibited widely, and is included in more than 34 major corporate, institutional and private collections. Other of his work may be seen on his website: www.allensmutylo.com .