A Wildlife Day.

Recently I have been fully occupied with the Wainwright sketches which unfortunately means that I have not travelled far from home. I have had to make do with shorter walks for the dogs a couple of time a day. So today it was just in the local area of the house that we got a bit of fresh air. I make a habit of always taking the camera with me as you never know what is gong to pop up. Luckily for me I was giving the dogs a bit of close heel work when I spotted an adult Hare in an adjacent field to where we were. A bit of patience and he got closer and closer enabling me to get some great close-up photos of him. Great poses for future paintings.

On our later walk we were also fortunate to spot this line up of waders just sitting on a dry stone wall. Three Oystercatchers and a Redshank, even though they all breed hereabouts it was so unusual to cature them all in close proximity to each other.

All in all a good day for a bit of wildlife watching, and just on the doorstep too.

March- It must be hares!

  Yesterday's trip was partly to collect some more stock for the gallery. Its always great to go and collect work from the artists workshops and studios even though it takes up precious time. I feel that it gives me an insight to the artists and how they work which helps when talking to customers. So the boxes are unpacked and now all I have to do is make up a good display but it's not hard with these guys, they really sell themselves.

Boxing Hares.

photos for the new stock will be online shortly.