Charcoal on paper 76x56cms, paper size Framed Coal tits are such tiny birds – just 11.5 cms long and weighing only 8-10 g. They have a grey back, black cap and white patch at the back of the neck and I wanted to make an image large enough to show this exquisite detail. If you would like to buy this…
Collage on paper 76x56cms, paper size Framed I often come across hooded crows on my travels in Scotland. Such sturdy and soundly built creatures as they stomp across the land, an air of mischief and curiosity about them.
Charcoal and printed paper on board 60x50cms Framed Wrens are the tiniest of birds with the mightiest of voices. They weigh between 7 and 12 grammes and would have been a constant and numerous presence in Darwin’s world, and not quite so numerous in ours.
Graphite powder on pages of Darwin's Origin of Species 85x60cms Framed I wanted to explore disappearance and loss: using graphite powder produces a ghostly image
Darwin's Birds 4 Charcoal, twigs and paper on board 57x47cms, framed The Chiffchaff is a small warbler, olive brown in colour and with a lovely wagging tail. Still small, it weighs in at between 6 and 10g. It's one of the first spring songbirds to arrive in the UK from its winter quarters in the Mediterranean or Africa. Precariously, they…
Charcoal on paper 76x56cms, paper size Framed The Frigatebird can’t land on the water and instead swoops in and helps itself to food from the beaks of other sea birds. On a boat in the Pacific, I was entranced when this one came aboard for a short rest.
Charcoal on paper 69x99cms, paper size Framed I find most of my hare subjects in Scotland and to see one in the wild is a magical experience, even if it does mean lying in wet grass for hours, camera at the ready. They are nothing like the more common rabbit, instead standing upright, muscular, with huge eyes and ears, and…
