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Happy new year and thank you for following along my intermittent twitter feed… I’m better on instagram 😂honest!

🦡🦡🦡 Its National Badger Day!!!! 🦡🦡🦡

Celebrate Badgers pop over to the @badgertrust to find out more about Badgers and how to support them

Painting from free ebook based on Badgers to celebrate #brocktober here ➡️ https://t.co/3YMcKldPLo.
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#badger #badgerart #nbd22

This painting is part of the exhibition at the @theoldcoastguard and the title comes from the poem The Owl who comes by Mary Oliver

The owl who comes
through the dark
to sit
in the black boughs of the apple tree
and stare down
the hook of his beak,
dead silent,
and his eye…

Today is national Fox day

Here is the poem thought fox by ted hughes

And my painting made sometime ago of one of our a foxy visitors...

I imagine this midnight moment’s forest:
Something else is alive
Beside the clock’s loneliness
And this blank page where my fingers m…

When I turned over my @btobirds calendar this month I was really excited to see (and remember as I had forgotten!) that my painting of a Balearic Shearwater is the image for September. I was so delighted to be able to contribute to their Red 67 Book and even more so when th…

I have spent most of the day in my studio today but have nothing complete enough to share so here is one from a little while ago again across hells mouth with fulmar, cormorants, jackdaws and gulls. Birds in their homes! It is one of my favourite birdscapes as you know I thi…

Time spent in my studio working on some Stithians birdscapes …. Hmmmm now got to the over analysing and fiddling phase I have removed myself from the studio 😂

I have been working towards these for so long I am not sure if they are as I wanted them or not… my biggest concern…

Another of the sketches from the north cliffs just visual note taking, mapping colour and scale gathering information etc. There was a Raven around and lots of gulls, fulmar and cormorants. The fulmar particularly were chasing it off as they still have young on this cliff ed…

A bit more daily sketching…. Just the edge of a cliff, which I would have said was grey until I studied it for a while and realised that due to all the lichen it was actually green! More of my favourite birdscapes this time at Godrevy, lots of Gannets flying by. Have you ev…

As a @btobirds member I always enjoy their newsletter, it dropped into my inbox this morning just as I was about to post the story of Crisp VC. “Due to its habit of gathering near people in large numbers in city centres, this species has a reputation for being a pest, but th…