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A quick preen by Buttermere
Grey heron, Grey wagtail, Common sandpiper
ORIGINAL: Code O1101 SOLD - Private Sale
PRINTS AVAILABLE: Code P1101:
A3 Print on Fine Art Paper
£30 + £5 postage & packing.
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Whilst stewarding for an exhibition at Banham Zoo for the Natural World Art Group (NWAG), I sent hubby (David) out with the camera to see if he could obtain any interesting resource pictures. He came back with what he called a 'grey flamingo'. I thought he was joking until I got home and looked at the pictures: it was this heron amongst the pink birds, so quite astonishing! The background setting of his photograph was concrete and chain-link fencing, so I trawled through my resource pictures from the Lake District and found a bit of flotsam, a common sandpiper and a preening grey wagtail on a rocky shore. As well as David's heron for resource, I also used a striking picture kindly supplied by Sue Smith: to both, a huge thank you. And, during the recent cold spell, my little garden pond was frequented by a young, starving heron; so close-up views through the scope gave me extra insight. The birds in the painting are depicted two-thirds lifesize.
ORIGINAL WATER COLOUR.
Completed January 2011.
Unframed original size 30" x 22.5".
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Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
ORIGINAL AVAILABLE: Code O1017
£400 + £25 postage & packing.
PRINTS AVAILABLE: Code P1017:
A3 Print on Fine Art Paper
£30 + £5 postage & packing.
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I never realised how small lesser spotted woodpeckers are! What a beautiful little bird. I have painted this one life-size and many thanks to Ian Dickerson for resource material gathered from Paxton Pits Nature Reserve.
Calendar poem:
Maturing soon, the Sycamore, At sixty years will make a door.
But first provides a hamm'ring ground,
to distance Lesser Woody's sound.
And also gives a resting place For 'rarities' a sunning space
ORIGINAL WATER COLOUR.
Completed June 2010.
Framed size 16" x 21".
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The Ladies are Listening (Nightingales)
ORIGINAL AVAILABLE: Code O1015
£490 + £25 postage & packing.
PRINTS AVAILABLE: Code P1015:
A3 Print on Fine Art Paper
£30 + £5 postage & packing.
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Of all my natural history pictures so far, this one has required the most thought regarding the search for resource material and finding out about the bird and its habit. But it has helped me to compose what I like to think is a natural scene, of which we are having a private view. The original was painted to provide a picture of Nightingales for The Friends of Paxton Pits Nature Reserve to produce greetings cards. These are on sale in the Visitor Centre to members and visitors.
Calendar poem:
At Paxton Pits, I guarantee, live Nightingales, both she and he,
The ladies timid in the bush, Dishevelled from migration's rush
This singing star belts out his song, He'll win his lady before too long!
ORIGINAL WATER COLOUR.
Completed March 2010.
Framed size 19" x 24". View Framed Original 22" x 18". |
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Cheeky Chappies (Blue tits)
ORIGINAL: Code O0901 SOLD - Private Sale
PRINTS AVAILABLE: Code P0901:
A3 Print on Fine Art Paper
£30 + £5 postage & packing.
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Many thanks to my neighbour, Dave Oates, whose resource photograph (right top-most tit) provided the inspiration for this work entitled 'Cheeky Chappies'. I saw such a tit-gathering down Royston Lane, Comberton, whilst on one of my village walks; they were all perched or flitting amongst the alder catkins. I had never noticed until this year how green and nobbly alder catkins are, and was fascinated by the red-brown branches of 'new' growth contrasting with the dark brown of last year's cones and cone-bearing branches. Blue tits will always be the cheekiest little birds you will see, so the title is very apt!
Calendar poem:
Whilst strolling down our Royston Lane
Diverting from the street of main
No people here to stop and speak
Only alder tall and sleek
When all at once a twittering sound
then Cheeky blue tits all abound
ORIGINAL WATER COLOUR.
Completed May 2009.
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Flag Iris and Friends
ORIGINAL: Code O1001 SOLD - Private Sale
PRINTS AVAILABLE: Code P1001:
A3 Print on Fine Art Paper
£30 + £5 postage & packing.
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These beautiful flags grow under my neighbour's hedge and every year provide a wonderful splash of colour in the spring. Both our gardens share the hedgehog. Robins nest in their territories nearby, and the fledglings hide and meld into all sorts of places! Snails live amongst the protruding tubers that interlace on the ground. Life-size oil painting on stretched canvas - 36" x 28".
Calendar poem:
This life-size canvas, done with oils
Points up Mother Nature's foils
As hedgehog gollops slimy snails
And worms in beak show some entrails
With pleas for meals by mother's love
The anxious baby looks above
ORIGINAL OIL ON CANVAS.
Completed September 2009.
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The Three Snails (Blackbirds)
ORIGINAL: Code O0711 SOLD - Exhibition
PRINTS AVAILABLE: Code P0711:
A3 Print on Fine Art Paper
£30 + £5 postage & packing.
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Blackbirds regularly dance about in my little stream on dewy mornings, and these two lovebirds have nested nearby for the last few years. They both have very distinct markings and ferociously guard their patch. This lifesize picture was painted as part of the design for my 2008 calendar called, 'Best Dressed Birds in your Garden', on the page for the month of May.
Calendar poem:
By bubbling stream in morning dew, The cock bird tries his love to woo
By showing off his feathers fine and dancing with a love divine
But she with dappled bib of white, Will make him wait another night!
ORIGINAL WATER COLOUR
Completed November 2007.
SOLD at Holt Picturecraft Gallery, September 2009. |
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