Gallery - Birds
For Galala
This rather glamourous Egyptian Vulture is based on a photo by the super-talented David Tipling.
It is Lot 3 in the Global Birdfair Auction to raise funds for the 2024 Birdlife International project supporting Galala Bird Observatory in Egypt.
I will be in the Puffin Marquee at Global Birdfair from 12-14 July
Original Felt
33cm x 40cm
Reserve is £150
Bog Reflections
This picture was etched in my mind after seeing one of my very favourite birds with its bright white breast looking perfect by the Pennine cotton grass and both reflected darkly in the bog pool.
Original felt 36cm x 42cm
£190
Beetling
Little owls are always a delight out on the fen fields. I love their grumpy little faces and some years get lucky to see owlets too.
Original felt 32cm x 31cm
£170
Pasques and Kites
Any one who has visited Barnack Holes and Hills in April will recognise this combo.
Original felt 26cm x 38cm
£140
Harrier Incoming
March at Far Ings is alive with Marsh Harriers quartering and dropping into the reedbeds not yet greened with new growth.
Original felt 55cm x23cm
£170
Spring Creeper
Fresh birch leaves and silvered bark are a perfect setting for a Spring Treecreeper.
Original felt 23cm x31cm
£110
Framed
This portrait of a Barny leaving her nest hole was inspired by a photo by the talented Sue Cross. Thank you! Lots of texture in that bark.
Original felt 42cm x 43cm
£280
Whooper Stretches
Seeing close up Whooper Swans was the main reason to visit Martin Mere in Feb: elegant and serene in the distance but soooo noisy! Like so many birds, quite teh shape shifters
Original felt 64cm x 32cm
£210
March Marshside Godwits
This was a late bit of sun on a February afternoon at RSPB Marshside - where the lagoons were packed with Black Tailed Godwits.
Original felt 33cm x 43cm
£180
Little Lights
One of my favourite things is seeing winter hedges full of Yellow Hammers illuminated in the low afternoon sun.
Original felt 34cm x 42cm
£210
Curlew Doodle
February in the Forest of Bowland with wet fields spilling with Curlew inspired this rather retro and highly textured celebration.
I am struggling to show subtle colours but FYI this lower image was taken against white mountboard which still looks blue :(
Original felt 51cm x34cm
£210
On the Hornet
I cannot remember how many felts garden Blackbirds have inspired - but this is not the first to be in combo with the Golden Hornet Crab Apple
Original felt 33cm x 32cm
£140
Golden Roosters
Just a small group from the many thousands of lapwings roosting on the wet grasslands of RSPB Frampton Marsh. With plenty of gleam and glitter.
Original felt 32cm x 52cm
£80
Battling Blackbirds
Our February garden is a wr zone with several pairs of Blackbirds raw in beak and claw!
Original felt 35cm x 34cm
£160
Bearded
Ping ping ping they go in the beds of Far Ings - Bearded Reddlings at their most iconic.
Original felt 24cm x 55cm
£200
Summer Uplands
I think it is where I might choose to nest! Golden Plover in their spotty loveliness
Original felt 37cm x 35cm
£180
Ripple Chick
We spent a stunning evening at Rutland Water watching attentive parents on the relentless search for food for their three stripey grebelings
Original felt 55cm x 37cm
£240
Midwinter Fisher
Always a joy to spy a Kingfisher against washed out winter vegetation.
Original felt 24cm x 54cm
£200
Because I said so
I love junior starlings with the start of their grown up spots. These two having a normal starling conversation in the back garden
Original felt 34cm x 32cm
£180
Autumn Glory
Just before Christmas we were delighted to have a pair of Brambling visit our garden feeders - as far as we know, the first time.
Original felt 34cm x 34cm
£160
Spring Tawny
Inspired by a lovely photo taken by Stephen Williams in a Sheffield Wood. A Tawny adorned with tweed and chiffon
Original felt 37cm x 45cm
SOLD
Rutland Egret
How statuesque is a Great White Egret wading through the summer shallows of Rutland Water! With gleam in the watery fibres.
Original felt 34cm x 43cm
£160
Never too Soon
More Avocets, this time at Frampton where in early June, there are many many avocet chicks finding it is 'never too soon' to be practising your reflection!
Original felt 44cm x 35cm
£270 framed in white and pale wood frame.
Outer measurement 57cm x 43cm
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See You SEO
Inspired by a lovely photo of a Short Eared Owl by Paul Bennett . I have chosen a background of a summer saltmarsh a that is where I have had my own best views - albeit not with one obligingly landing on a post.
Original felt 32cm x 38cm
£140
Winter Siskins
Such pretty twitterers getting stuck into the Alder catkins down by our nearby farm reservoir.
Original felt 39cm x 37cm
£170
The Monochrome Set
More Avocets in Snettisham. Wisely wading in the sheltered water of the Lake on a wild and windy day
Original felt 49cm x 35cm
£220
Golden Boy!
Well this Goldeneye duck is considering the drake in oh so many ways! Just lovely to see him throwing some shapes in the phragmites reflections At Far Ings.
Original felt 56cm x 38cm
£220
Little Dipper
Always a joy to spot the bright white of a Dipper's breast on a riverside walk. My last spot was on the Bradford below Youlgrave but universally lovely.
Original felt
31cm x 22cm
£95
Wren on Guelder Buds
Sometimes the simplest scenes are magical. Wren hopping along the hedge and this is the moment I captured
Original felt 23cm x 30cm
£130 ( in A4 Wooden Frame)
Berry Beauty
My own views of Waxwings have been transient and occasional. My thanks go to Les Parks for a brilliant photo shared online and which was just too good to miss.
Original felt 47cm x 31cm
£220
Funky Coot
I am always drawn to Coots with their super smart plumage and fabulous feet. This one looking rather retro on Autumn reflections at Clumber.
Original felt 33cm x 25cm
£120
Spotted
Doing what Woodpeckers do - always a delight in the garden - liking the ancient elder and apple trees
Original felt 23cm x 30cm
£90
House Guests
Well we live in a house adorned with Housemartins every summer -otherwise known as the blac and white flying fish!
Original felt 37cm x 33cm
£160
Salen Sunset
The old pier at Salen in Mull is always adorned with cormorants, gulls and herons in changing combinations.
Original felt 35cm x41cm
£150
Bluethroats
My one and only sighting of Bluethroats was in the pale dawn at El Rocio lagoon
Original felt 32cm x23cm
£60
Spring Greens
Greenfinches on the early shoots of my Gloire de Hollande Rose in early Spring - just such a lovely colour combo - i couldnt resist.
Original felt 35cm x33cm
£140
Sunny Stork
La Dehesa de Abajo in Donana National Park has many very decorative White Storks: this one rather superior on his magnificent sundrenched nest.
Original felt 37cm x 42cm
£230
Resting
A snooze along the Grantham Canal: Mute swan living up to its name
Original felt shown here in 30cmx30cm mount. Now in white frame too.
£160
Spring Sparrows
Our privet hedge is beloved of so-oo many sparrows. They zoom out and perch on the old fennel stems and zoom back again.
Original felt 27cm x 34cm
£110
Blue-winged Bandits
In Andalusia we saw dozens of these splendid Azure Winged magpies but they rarely stuck around. This group had found an abandoned bread roll!
Original felt 58cm x 42cm
£220
Bathtime
Right outside the kitchen window is a pond well used by all our garden birds.
I decided it was time to feature the beautiful subtle browns and tawnys of the female
front and central.
Original felt 28cm x33cm
£100