“Do not despair at the stars’ distance. Listening to blackbird music is to bridge in a moment chasms of space-time.”
R.S. Thomas, The Blackbird
Two For Joy
Oil on Board, 40 x40 cm
(Sold) Prints and cards available
Flock
Hybrid Monotype, 60 x 46 cm (80 x66 cm)
£550 (framed)
Moon and Umbel
Hybrid Monotype, 100 x 60 cm (60 x 60cm)
(Sold)
Exodus
Ink on Paper, 50 x100 cm (76 x 126cm)
£1200 (framed)
Sirius Glitters
Hybrid Monotype, 20 x45 cm
(Sold) Prints and cards available
Ultramarine Flock
Watercolour, 60 x45 cm
£180 (unframed)
Kindred
Hybrid Monotype, 20 x 14 cm
(Sold) Card available
Little Exodus
Ink on Paper, 33 x 30 cm (53 x50 cm)
£350 (framed)
Umble
Hbrid Monotype, 100 x 60 cm
(Sold) Postcard available
King of the Castle
Watercolour and Ink, 19 x 14 cm
£60 (unframed)
card available
MORE ABOUT THIS COLLECTION
Birds can embody the spirit of a place, decorative, familiar yet otherworldly. They are flash of movement, the sign of irrepressible life in a sometimes still, timeless landscape.
Magpies have been a joy to paint with their perfect tuxedos and dazzling jade black feathers, squabbling and spying amongst branches. They seemed to be everywhere in autumn and I always catch myself counting ‘One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy………………’once I counted 15 -but the rhyme doesn’t go that far!
Blackbirds have been a muse, their modest appearance contrasting with the extraordinary beauty of their song. More recently it has been the flock in flight that has captured my attention and imagination; the incredible synchronicity creating beautiful patterns and tessellations.