Wrens – Tiny Warriors

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This little wren punched above its weight ... twittering amongst the wisteria after emerging from our upturned mop on the side of the house.   It's nimble movements were hard to discern until I did ...

Emperor Penguins New Arrival

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On the freezing Antartic winter ice sheet, a tiny chick is being tranferred from father to mother.  All the mothers in the colony have travelled across miles of slippery and broken ice fields to the ...

Toucan and Chick

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Toucans are amazing - their plumage design and mulicolours over that yellow bib - sheer genius in my view!  Don't the chicks look like a stuffed toy!  They enjoy figs, so I was inspired to put 'Dad'...

Splash – Kingfisher

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Many of us are beguiled by kingfishers - as is Michael, my husband. I painted this as a gift for his birthday.  It was decades ago, and I don't remember in  which magazine I saw this beautiful  pho...

GANNETS WHEELING

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One of my early attempts of painting in acrylics, I simply loved this picture of the wheeling gannets and their elegant shapes, the deep blues of the swirling waves set off by the subtle tones of the ...