On the Wing of a Swan is an oil painting on paper. It measures about 48x48" and the paper is permanently attached to a stretched canvas.

Many years ago, measured in thousands of years, in a Scandinavian country a young woman gave birth to a child. Both of them died in childbirth. When the grave was discovered in the 20th century by archaeologists, they found the remains of a young woman, judged by modern scientific methods to have been about 18 years old. She was dressed in a leather dress and had many pieces of jewelry made of sea shells on her body. The child, laid beside her, was too young at death to have a definite gender identification even by modern scientific methods, but an arrowhead was laid at the child's head which led the archaeologists to believe that the child was male. The two were lovingly laid to rest beside each other and the baby rested on the soft and downy wing of a swan.

Childbirth deaths of mothers and of babies were common until fairly recent times. Who was it all those centuries ago who suffered the loss of those two people? Who laid them to rest so tenderly?