Garia Eliptica

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It is mid-winter and I have waited all year for the graceful catkins of the Garia Eliptica to grow in elegant abandon. They offer a delightful fresh green against the tall, slender grey metal jug. Pal...

Summer Meadow

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I filled this large meadow with bright, happy colours with some of the little creatures we would see walking by - dragonflies, ladybirds ...  note the absence of blacks, dark browns, greys which is t...

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'...

A Mouse at Peace

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One sunny summer's day, my art group settled down to practicing its favourite pastime.  Fruit was the subject.  I was allocated two pears to paint, but ... I was not inspired.  I thought : why not ...

Old Dovecote

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This ancient dovecote stands at the end of a sloping garden of a manor house in Kingscliffe, a village in Northamptonshire, UK.  It is such a handsome building that one summer morning I sat before it...

Church of the Virgin Mary, Woodford

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