A colorful painting of an owl wearing glasses, a top hat, and a bow tie, with a squirrel riding on its wing, in a forest with trees, flowers, and two people sitting on a bench in the background.

Hawk & Squirrel’s Adventures

Adventures told by a grandmother. Magical realism paintings from a world where an unlikely friendship travels through impossibly beautiful places.

Where This World Began

Someone asked me once when I felt total acceptance and unconditional love. Without thinking, I said: my grandmother. Her garden. The way she told me stories for hours as I kept asking her for more. As I was telling this to the woman in front of me, a hawk landed on the fence beside us. He didn't move the whole time we talked. He just... stayed and looked at us.

It reminded me of another moment, years earlier, in a coaching session, as my client was sharing how she was tired of being so serious and responsible and wanted to be more playful and have more joy in her life, we saw a hawk and a squirrel play together outside. Not fight. Play.

Those two moments arrived in my imagination together. And in a single flood, this whole world was born.

Hawk & Squirrel's Adventures is a magical realism collection about an unlikely friendship who travels together, makes music together, sings together, and finds beauty everywhere they land. In every painting, my grandmother is there, in one form or another, telling the story. Because none of this world exists without her.

Close-up of a textured, circular object with red, black, purple, and blue speckles, resembling a painted or metallic surface.

Grandmother & granddaughter

Close-up of a glittery, iridescent surface with pastel shades of purple, blue, and green, and tiny reflective specks.

Music in water

In every paintings

Close-up of a textured, circular abstract artwork with vibrant pink, purple, and yellow hues on a dark background.

Hawk’s disguise

Close-up of a rusted, textured metal surface in reddish-brown and yellow hues.

Written lines

Squirrel’s wardrobe

Close-up of a textured, circular surface covered in vibrant, multicolored powder in shades of purple, blue, pink, and yellow.

Real places, magical layers

Forest and Water Series

A magical realism painting of a squirrel on a hawk's back flying over a meadow filled with fireflies in daytime by Evelyne Verret.

Tea by the River, magical realism painting of a hawk in sunglasses and a squirrel in a top hat sharing tea by a river in a forest, by Evelyne Verret

Flight Over Firefly Meadow
24”x36”x1.75” Oil on mixed media on canvas

The first painting in the collection. A small victory dance for Squirrel and a very good disguise for Hawk. The fireflies were a surprise. I was happy!

Tea by the River
24”x36”x1.75” Oil on mixed media on canvas

After the flight, Hawk and Squirrel land by a river to catch their breath and their tea. Listen closely, there's music in the water.

Two Canoes, One Story
24”x30”x1.75” Oil on mixed media on canvas

Hawk takes the helm. Squirrel takes the oars. And a hummingbird arrives, because it wanted to be part of the story. I said ABSOLUTELY!

In the Wind at Sleeping Bear
30”x24”x1.75” Oil on mixed media on canvas

Squirrel wanted to try kiteboarding. Hawk agreed to be the kite, watch the paper on the beach turn into waves.

The Gathering
24”x24”x1.75” Oil on mixed media on canvas

Around a campfire at the end of the day, Bear joins the friends for the very first time. Watch closely, the story being told is the world you're looking at.

Two Canoes, One Story, magical realism painting of a hawk steering a canoe with a squirrel rowing on a lilypad-filled river with a hummingbird, by Evelyne Verret

In the Wind at Sleeping Bear — magical realism painting of a squirrel kiteboarding while a hawk in sunglasses pulls the wind at Sleeping Bear Dunes, by Evelyne Verret

An artistic painting of a forest scene with animals. There is a lion wearing a purple floral crown, an owl with glasses perched on a branch, and a squirrel wearing a hat and reading a newspaper near a small fire by a stream.