@thewildlifetrusts are running their #30dayswild campaign throughout June and over the summer I set my students @artdesigncornwall a project to do a drawing or a sketch book page a day in order to create momentum and build on their year of study. So for June I thought I could combine the 2 and make a painting a day for 30 days, from my wild encounters which I will also photograph. I have done this before and you can visit my website to see how it went ... I should have given myself a slightly longer lead in but no time like the present! If you are doing the #30dayswild do let me know I would love to see how you get on and it will help me to stay on the bus 😂

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Back in my newly tidied studio, i feel like I am getting some where now, my little press and these @cranfieldcolours are perfect for my home studio...currently using single plates and a mono print inking process to keep them unique 😊

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Tomorrow I will be sending out my 1st email newsletter for a while, if you would like to receive it there is a link on my profile which will take you to the sign up page marked priority mailing list... exciting new projects ahead 😍 I hope to see you there.

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Well they definitely need refining and printing in a bar owl ochre but I have made a start... more tomorrow ...

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Exciting things happening with my lino... and more importantly in my thinking! I am hoping to launch a couple of new projects in the next couple of days, owls will definitely be a large part of one of them.

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Starting something new always exciting... I love carving lino... i am going to create a collection of owls, but should they be a stare, a parliament, a wisdom or something else ??? Currently due to the chaos we have at the moment my least favourite would be a parliament 😂😂😂

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I was looking for this wonderful quote "never heard the solitary whistle of curlew on a summer noon without feeling the elevation of soul” Robert Burns But also found this,😣 I know that so many of our birds are threatened and I look at this so often it is one of my main focuses but somehow this news passed me by ... According to the @wwtworldwide Britain holds a quarter of the world’s curlew population and the @RSPB_love_nature report that the population has at least halved and in some places dropping by 81% raising awareness can help hopefully 🙏 but more can be read more at RSPB http://bit.ly/2YOpvXY or Wildfowl & wetland trust http://bit.ly/2HHxYGw #curlewcrisis Everywhere I look there seems to be sad discoveries of diminishing species, what can we do? What do you do?

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Lawings I always think look very different close up, beautifully coloured than they do in flight where they appear just black and white ... my grandad used to call the peewits ❤ This is another slightly older piece painted after a misty trip to @wwtslimbridge .

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Time to get back to some work but my studio is still a tip as I went out playing grown up sports day otherwise known as #crossfit so I did a little work on my website today and came across this Puffin. I have always loved Puffins but found them just a bit too cute to paint until I visited @skomer_island and the @skokholm_island and their personalities just captivated me ... this one is just a little mixed media painting on paper 21 x 29 cm

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Snippets of a lovely trip around a few @openstudioscornwall @krowji_ @nessapenrose, @fijkemiddendorp @rae.jakemanart @corinnedetain @lesleyplum @mariemakesvintage I will have to return again as I didn't get to see a lot of people...

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Tomorrow @one_and_all_games at @cblctrust with @duchy.crossfit tomorrow gathering ideas for my strong more specifically #strongeomen project. . . . #snatch ##crossfituk #fitness #fitnessmotivation #functionalfitness #weightlifting #womenwholift #strongwomen #olympicweightlifting #leggains #bootybuilding #motivation #weightloss #bodypositive #gymgirls #betteryourself #running #cardio #health #womenempowerment #progress #competition

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Looking forward to @one_and_all_games at @cblctrust with @duchy.crossfit tomorrow gathering ideas for my strong more specifically #strongeomen project

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A quick call in to @trelowarren today to drop off some cards always great to see my work beautifully curated in such great company @sarahdunstanceramic and Sally Tully

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Too often i find the world to busy for me i have been trying to escape to a quieter world for most of my life, which is what i am trying to convery in my work. But I went out this morning to feed the lambs and everything was quite and still... it was perfect... 😊 I hope your day is full of perfect things!

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Well i looked into your studio after dumping all of teaching materials from a year of almost full time teaching in it and realised I have a lot to do over the bank holiday weekend! Oh dear...

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Good luck tomorrow at @one_and_all_games Everyone but especially @bethanysrobinson @elliegregor @ben.gregor @cornish_honey_badger and all at @duchy.crossfit I look forward to watching you all!. . . . #crossfituk #fitness #fitnessmotivation #functionalfitness #weightlifting #womenwholift #strongwomen #olympicweightlifting #leggains #strongwomen #stronggirls #inspirational

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A Kite this time I don't see many of them in Cornwall...but it is always a good reason to visit mid Wales! Still digitally collaging paintings over backgrounds... which means until I have the time for a sustained period of painting I can still play with my ideas 😊

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I was doing a little Buzzard watching on my way home, soaring over newly cut fields. I think if i could be a bird I would be a buzzard, the seem to spend most of their time watching the world go by or playing in the thermals. Which bird would you be I would love to know?

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An Oystercatcher this morning often heard before they are seen (by me anyway)

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I found another nest about 3ft off the ground behind the green netting in a crevice in the wall... Any ideas ??? Thinking possibly great tit or sparrow as both were watching and making a noise as I approached...

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Everyone except the dog and feral cats in this one, lambs not really wanting to be too close to the sheep who keep chasing them off... 😣

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Times of failure are always good for analysis 😊 so now I know that this image more clearly articulates my ideas about the world our wildlife navigate and the way they appear to us as fleeting treasured glimpses.... .

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Well! Not very impressed with my screen printing efforts! Too photographic for my liking I think, i will probably chop them up and make them into cards or sketchbook pages...although they look better on here than in the studio, maybe they just don't look like my work #failfast #failoften 😂

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#worldbeeday sharing this from @cornwallwildlifetrust ♥️

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Sitting in the conservatory watching birds and listening to the world ... whilst i look through images to post today... I live in a rural part of cornwall but at this time of day the road is quite busy, the birds just do their thing regardless... starlings...

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@elliegregor sent me another photo of her office at Walters & Barbary solicitors the painting is of Bewick's Swans who are the smallest of our swans. They arrive in autumn from Siberia where they breed I usually like to take a little trip to @wwtslimbridge each year...

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Gorgeous evening here in Cornwall ❤

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Swift... I have them fly around here in small numbers one or 2 but when I went to Tavira last year they were everywhere nesting on the taller buildings, wheeling around and screeching.. wonderful...'materialise at the top of a long scream' as Ted Hughes describes them

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Staying with the same background and magpies... i really enjoy this creative process... so many options and possibilities... using all the mixed media options! collage, lino cut, abstracted (busy world) painted landscape and screen print ...

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It has been a while since I shared a magpie, I have a beautiful pair nesting in my garden and eating me out of house and fat balls. I love to watch them trying to balance on the feeder whilst getting the maximum amount of food in their mouths...

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I like the lapwing here... I have a type of landscape in mind for each species... although I see them all within a few miles of home... I enjoy the conversations my mind has with my hands and eyes as I move things around. This pocess has memory I used to do this when I was very young... " It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." Picasso ... not that I have ever painted like Raphael 😂

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A barn owl quatering fields methodically searching and focused...

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I am going to re-start writing a short monthly newsletter and wondered what would be interesting to those of you who would subscribe? The image is basically a visual representation of me... 😁 so would; My process and thoughts around my practice, insights into what i am looking for in my work and how i hope to achieve it? Or as I am also a lecturer on a multidisciplinary BA so bits of teaching, workshops etc. my inspiration and broader life including my smallholding, sheep etc. Or finished work exhibitions etc. A round up of all of tgat or something else. What would be of most interest? Which newsletters do you find most interesting?

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One more old barn owl... I think this is my favourite so far... but I look forward to trying to exceed myself...

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Not a huge change, a tawny owl , still trawling through some older work while I think about my new shift in direction

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A slightly different barn owl in ink and wash, hunting... these are such and fun to do, I love Indian ink to work with, spontaneous and slightly unpredictable when using a homemade quill, concentrating on setting judgement aside and just drawing the energy 😊. . . . . . #barnowl #britishbirds #owl #owlsofinstagram #owls #wildlife #lovenature #farmlandbird #humananimalrelationship #contmeporarypainting #mixedmedia #illustration #drawing #ink #painting #gallerywall #picturegallery #dreamhome #farmhouseliving #countryliving #countryinteriors

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Awww look who flew in... baby Robin back in the world safe and sound now! ❤

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#mentalhealthawarenessweek Art and nature (birds and animals, plants and trees, open spaces and weather, drawing without judgement, responding to the world with ink, graphite and paint ) are my cure all's ...

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Reading a post about body image by @bethanysrobinson I remembered this Poem it talks about Queen Owl Wings... which means I can share another Barn Owl ! its a beautiful poem about age... our scars and wrinkles are a map of our lives... well thats what I think anyway... BENEATHER THE SWEATER AND THE SKIN How many years of beauty do I have left? she asks me. How many more do you want? Here. Here is 34. Here is 50. When you are 80 years old and your beauty rises in ways your cells cannot even imagine now and your wild bones grow luminous and ripe, having carried the weight of a passionate life. When your hair is aflame with winter and you have decades of learning and leaving and loving sewn into the corners of your eyes and your children come home to find their own history in your face. When you know what it feels like to fail ferociously and have gained the capacity to rise and rise and rise again. When you can make your tea on a quiet and ridiculously lonely afternoon and still have a song in your heart Queen owl wings beating beneath the cotton of your sweater. Because your beauty began there beneath the sweater and the skin, remember? This is when I will take you into my arms and coo YOU BRAVE AND GLORIOUS THING you've come so far. I see you. Your beauty is breathtaking. ~ Jeannette Encinias

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Another old Barn Owl painting ... my interests have not changed but the conversation I am trying to have through my work has shifted I think... also available as a card... I think it is time to update my collection of greetings cards but it would be hard to let this one go as it has always been very popular 😊

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This wise old owl is in good company nestled between law society certificates in @elliegregors office casting his eye over proceedings! Ellie says he brightens up her office. As it’s mental health awareness week Ellie thought it would be apt to start a blog with a post about mental health in the workplace and how surrounding yourself with things you love can help. #mentalhealthawarenessweek

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Painted some time ago, I have pushed my ideas in terms of backgrounds but I have generally been working in the same area for years... which is fine with me. 😊 This one is available as a card from my website.. . . . #barnpwl #greetingcard #britishbirds #owlsofinstagram #owls #wildlife #lovenature #farmlandbird #humananimalrelationship #wildbird #wildlifepainting #contemporaryart #abstractlandscape #landscapepainting #contemporarylandscapepainting #contmeporarypainting #mixedmedia #collage #screenprinting #illustration #printmaking #painting #gallerywall #picturegallery #dreamhome #farmhouseliving #countryliving #countryinteriors #interiors #artforsale

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I love to see my work in situ and i especially love to hear about how it makes people feel...if you have my work on your walls at home or at work , I would love to see it. #Repost @elliegregor • • • • • • How many of you spend most of your week in an office? I spend 40-50 hours a week in mine which is made much better by the beautiful artwork by @ssharpeart and my many office plants 🌱... As it’s mental health awareness week i thought it would be apt to start my blog with a blog about mental health in the workplace and how surrounding yourself with things you love can make those long hours staring at 4 walls much easier. I’ll be posting my blog in my bio this week so keep an eye out 🙌🏼 #solicitor #artwork #mentalhealth #localartist #artistofinstagram #art #animals #cornwall #cornwallproperty #homebuyingtips #conveyancinglife #firsttimebuyer ##mentalhealthawareness #worklifebalance #plants #officedecor #officeplants #lovewhereyouwork #conveyancing #lawyer #law #animalportrait #ukartist #discoverartists #homeowner #artforoffices

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Lapwings this morning, it's very blustery today here in cornwall, I always enjoy watching birds playing in the wind ...

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Another little round up... out of interest what size is ideal do you think? Larger statement piece 80 x 80 cm, 50 x 50cm or smaller 30 x 30 cm . In cornwall we have a lot of small cottages with low ceilings but I know this us not necessarily the case for most people... what are the houses like in your area ??

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A little bit of a round up of my best liked collages over the last couple of weeks, hoping to get my hands on a nice big canvas this weekend 😁

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This is turning into a whole parliament of owls ... but that's ok with me ... just a sketch again but I like some of the background marketing and the little bits of text and pattern 😊

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I do like the structure created by the dark areas .although I am not entirely happy with the shape of my owl in this one but. looking forward to working on a larger scale when I will have room to be a little more expressive I am not great at working small ...

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Grrrr.... Feeling slightly frustrated... these are all basically sketchbook experiments, but at this point I start to want to see real progress...proper finished pieces, even though I deliberately used scrapy bits of cheap paper so I could not start thinking of the exhibitable finished pieces 😂🤣😂 always fighting my own thoughts!!!!!! Is anyone else like this ? Oh oystercatchers at Godrevy in cornwall...

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Barn Owl again... I really don't get sick of painting them...

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