This is one of my favourite birds which happens to have a schedule1rating and the emblem bird of the RSPB.
I have an interest and curiosity with most things and sometimes find it difficult in focusing on anyone thing to paint.
Whether it be a landscape a still Life etc, sometimes I can’t seem to concentrate on any one subject and end up with a sort of writers block and can spend pointless hours deciding what to do, there is such a lot out there I would like to paint.
The most widely distributed owl in the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_owl , my most favorite of all owls and a real challenge to paint. More birds here https://wp.me/p2Ijh6-7n .
Oil on canvas panel 12 3/8 x 16 3/8 in
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One of my favorite birds and a frequent visitor to my garden. I have an old pear tree in the middle of my garden and when ever they are about watch them on the pear tree going busily up and down hunting for insects hiding in the bark of the trunk. There just isn’t the time to paint all the things that I see.
‘The Nuthatch’
Oil on panel 16 x 12 ins
Painting available to purchase
One of my favourite common garden birds. I sold this painting from the wall of my North Staffordshire gallery to a very nice couple from Scotland, who were on holiday and paid me a visit at the gallery.
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‘This fabled mountain is perhaps the most impressive in Britain, and gives a day of drama and views that will live in the memory forever. An Teallach is a mountain in Scotland. It lies to the southwest of Dundonnell and overlooks Little Loch Broom, in an area often nicknamed the “great wilderness”. An Teallach means ‘The Anvil’ or ‘The Forge’ in Scottish Gaelic; although most scholars claim the latter is most correct as the mountain’s name refers more to the colour of the terrain in certain lighting conditions, rather than shape.’
I discovered An Teallach whilst on holiday in the West Coast of Scotland. Some people that paid me a visit at my gallery in Staffordshire owned a cottage in Gruinard in Wester Ross, and I painted a picture for them in exchange for two weeks stay in their cottage. The painting here was executed some time after back in my studio and is essentially an exhibition painting. It would be technically impossible to paint anything like this on the spot.
‘An Teallach and Little Loch Broom’ Cattle Watering’
Oil on canvas 24″ x 36″
Commissions invited, any subject
A truly iconic species and claimed to be the fastest bird on earth.The Peregrine Falcon has been recorded with stoop speeds of over 200 miles per hour!
‘Peregrine Falcon’
Commissioned painting. Oil on canvas 16″ x 12″ (40.64 cm x 30.48)
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I used to see and here these lovely songsters in my garden frequently. Sadly they are now in serious decline, especially on farm land, and according to the R S P B it is now a Red List species and globally threatened.
‘The Song Thrush’ Turdus philomelos
Oil on panel 8 x 6 ins
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‘The Spotted Flycatcher’ (Muscicapa Striata)
Oil on panel 8 x 6 ins
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An oil painting of a Goldfinch feeding on Teasel. These striking birds are frequent visitors to my garden, they feed on the nyger seed in the feeders sighted opposite the kitchen window and keep me entertained when I break for coffee.
‘The Goldfinch’ Oil on paper 8 x 6 ins
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Here the Kingfisher and one of my favourite British birds, the painting was snapped up by a keen ornithologist after visiting me at the gallery.
Oil on canvas 16 x 12 ins
Commission welcome, any subject.
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