Seawitch Artist

 The Last Albatross     

 The ice blue wilderness of the southern Ocean, dotted with the occasional iceberg or floe, and down there is an Albatross, I know it’s there because I put it there, but it will take a lot of finding, as indeed the real thing will take too in the not so far future.

Long lines of the modern fishing industry are killing many tens of thousands of Albatrosses every year.

Like the also threatened Sharks, they are long lived slow breeding creatures that cannot stand much more of what is going on…high profile people like Dame Ellen MacArthur (see my links page) have taken action to raise awareness of the Albatrosses plight, alas, the long lines continue there indiscriminate plunder of the Ocean.

40 x 20 inch Acrylic on canvas.
Available: £75.00

 A Pair of Blackbirds   

 A pair of Blackbirds, which you’ll find in almost any British garden or hedge, urban and rural, is portrayed though a pair of minimalist paintings, one male and one female; this is why one is brown of course. Two very small paintings I enjoyed creating and I decline to apologize for the £12,000 price on them, if that German conceptual artist…w'ot's his name again, Joseph Boyz…. I mean Beuys, and these Tate modern types can do it, so can I.

Therefore only the more serious collectors should crowd my inbox.

Two 4 x 5 inch acrylic on canvas

£12,000.oo the pair

'Robin our National Bird'

For nearly fifty years the Robin, otherwise known as Robin Redbreast , has been our National bird in Britain. In 1961 the British section for the International council of birds was tasked to select a title bearer and they chose the Robin.
I think it was a good choice, great territory defenders that are in Britain brave window sill feeders and followers of the garden digger, in stark contrast they are very shy in Europe, not without good reason….they are often appreciated most with Orange sauce!
A previous painting I did of the Robin in abstract sold very quickly and gets good remarks still, so a second smaller painting has been done.

  Acrylic on canvas 10 x 10 x1.5 inch

  Roller     

 The European Roller is a very rare visitor to Britain as a vagrant or over shoot in summer.
It's beautiful blue and chestnut colours are applied here.

10 x 10 inch Acrylic on canvas.

Available: £50.00

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The tiny kingfisher is the most colourful of British birds, and they are applied in a small painting I just had to paint.

8 x 8 inch Acrylic on canvas: £50.00

'Shrike'

Shrikes, the missing link between the songbirds and the raptors perhaps, have always been rare in Britain, not that they seem common anywhere.

Now they are the kind of visitor to Britain you can count on your fingers, that kind of rarity gives a bird of any appearance beauty, which the Red Backed Shrike , whose colours I have used and accentuated here, certainly has.
All shrikes have a practice of impaling quarry, from insects to small rodents and birds on thorns, sharp protrusions, barbed wire included. 
This is not only to store, and secure for tearing apart quarry, but sometimes to help attract a mate as well.
This detail from the top right quarter of the painting highlights that, I felt putting this into the painting would help give it identity.
That done, I would prefer to avoid the term though, it sounds derogatory some how, and it also applies to an unrelated order of Australian birds with the same practice. 

3 x 2 ft acrylic on canvas.

Available £200.oo

Butcher bird…detail 
 

'Farewell Sparrow'

This painting reflects the loss of the House Sparrow from Cities the World throughout, the reasons unclear, but they are missed by many.

3 x 2 ft Acrylic on canvas £240.00

'Robin'

I rarely paint modern pictures, but this one has been done in a few forms. It sold as the paint was drying just about!

It celebrates the Robins role as our National bird, as it has been since 1961 when the British section of the International Council for Bird Preservation were given the task of selection.

Much help from correspondence in The Times  newspaper had them choose the Robin , which in Britain is  uniquely  a bold   garden bird, elsewhere a much more shy woodland one.

Acrylic on canvas 3 x 2 ft

'Jay'

The 'Jay ' was produced as a sister painting to 'Robin' , and sold even faster! This most colourful of Europe's Crows  is close to the Pagan Heart as any could be, in dream symbolism the messenger of the dead, in the natural world, the propagator of the Oak.

Acrylic  on canvas 38 x 24 inch

'Blue Mandala'

Asked to produce a Mandala for meditation that would suit myself, in a group activity, I chose to base one on two favorite  visualizations I use in meditation, Planet Earth as seen from space, and the Ocean, they merged to produce this.

Acrylic on paper, mounted on paper  8 x 11 inch