Phil and the little flock ❤

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I really enjoyed painting this one, I must paint a few more oystercatchers, they fascinate me, I love to hear their sharp call which is often all that alerts me to their presence 😊

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One more Rook greetings card... I am not very creative with titles so this is called Rook! 🤣🤣🤣

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Excited to be part of this #Repost @cornwall_crafts • • • • • • Our last Private View to be held at Trelowarren Gallery is on Saturday 7th September at 12.30 pm. It would be great to see lots of our friends and supporters on this occasion. Not only will there be delicious refreshments but the exhibition is going to be amazing.

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This is where I got to with my Barn Owl yesterday...still work to do...I do love painting them and thinking about all that they signify

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Not sure why Desmond prefers to be on the wall when he has fields full of grass... bless him! He is a law unto himself 🤣

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Drawn with ink a feather quill and fingers... time spent watching rooks, also now a greetings card 😊

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Magpie linocut... the magpies I have on my garden are chattering so I thought I would share this one 😊

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Staying with my ink drawings, I spent a while watching rooks, fascinated by them I made an installation of drawings, this is another of them, drawn with ink a feather quill and fingers... now a greetings card 😊 . . . . . . .

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Bird of the month August the Blackbird... you will all know this one. . The song by the Beetles Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these sunken eyes and learn to see All your life You were only waiting for this moment to be free Blackbird fly, blackbird fly Into the light of a dark black night Blackbird fly, blackbird fly Into the light of a dark black night Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise You were only waiting for this moment to arise You were only waiting for this moment to arise Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney f you would like to get the free ebook download, you can sign up to my studio insights (link in profile) and a link will be sent to you..

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I spent sometime watching rooks, fascinated by a the different expressive shapes they make with their bodies, I made an installation of drawings, this was one of them, all drawn in ink with a feather quill and fingers... now a card 😊 . . . . . . . #rook .#inkdrawing #crow #drawing #urbanbird #contemporaryart #wildlifeart #birdart #birdartist #wildbird #art #illustration #contemporarypainting #anthrozoology #humananimalrelationship #narrative #art #crowart #crowartist #ilovecrows #crowsofinstagram

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Just trying to hold on to the sun ... starlings across the sun linocut with monoprint... 😊. . . . . . . . #starlings #linocut #printmaking #monotype #reliefprinting #lino #urbanbird #contemporaryart #wildlifeart #birdart #birdartist #wildbird #art #illustration #sun #contemporaryprintmaking #humananimalrelationship #get_imprinted #ukprintmakers #narrative #art #citybird #urbanbird #anthrozoology

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Wonderful poem Thirteen blackbirds looking at a man R S Thomas I It is calm. It is as though we lived in a garden that had not yet arrived at the knowledge of good and evil. But there is a man in it. II There will be rain falling vertically from an indifferent sky. There will stare out from behind its bars the face of the man who is not enjoying it. III Nothing higher than a blackberry bush. As the sun comes up fresh, what is the darkness stretching from horizon to horizon? It is the shadow here of the forked man. IV We have eaten the blackberries and spat out the seeds, but they lie glittering like the eyes of a man. V After we have stopped singing, the garden is disturbed by echoes. It is the man whistling, expecting everything to come to him. VI We wipe our beaks on the branches wasting the dawn’s jewellery to get rid of the taste of a man. VII Nevertheless, which is not the case with a man, our bills give us no trouble. VIII Who said the number was unlucky? It was a man, who, trying to pass us, had his licence endorsed thirteen times. IX In the cool of the day the garden seems given over to blackbirds. Yet we know also that somewhere there is a man in hiding. X To us there are eggs and there are blackbirds. But there is the man, too, trying without feathers to incubate a solution. XI We spread our wings, reticulating our air space. A man stands under us and worries at his ability to do the same. XII When night comes like a visitor from outer space we stop our ears lest we should hear tell of the man in the moon. XIII Summer is at an end. The migrants depart. When they return in spring to the garden, will there be a man among them? . . . . .If you would like to get the free ebook download, you can sign up to my studio insights (link in profile) and a link will be sent to you... . .

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Ravens behind my studio calling all day today ...not finished with this chap yet but wanted to celebrate their presence 😍

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Slightly grumpy wire drawing of a badger popped up in my studio today ... so I though I would share it...😊

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I have achieved a goal today..I .finally put some of my printmaking on my website 😊

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Cormorants on my mind... after seeing so many at Lizard point yesterday, this one is from a while ago and a bit different as its in collage, it is a greetings card now 😊

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I am not sure if I posted this, there is always an interesting commentary on tweet of the day, these 2 snippets from Chris Packham and Bill Oddie. . If you would like to get the free ebook download, you can sign up to my studio insights (link in profile) and a link will be sent to you... . . .

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I walked across a field tonight in the dark, with a good bright torch it was full of moths (and other unknown insects ) a bat and most wonderful the sound of a tawny owl ❤

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Thinking of the many cormorants at Lizard point today

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Jackdaw on a patterned plinth linocut with monoprint... the pattern always kind of represents the contemporary capitalist world...or maybe just the man-made... Jackdaws seem to take full advantage of it 😊

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Bird of the month August The Blackbird Poem by John Clare 1 The blackbird is a bonny bird That singeth in the wood His song is in the evening heard When the red cow chews her cud His song is heard in morning loud Upon the bright white thorn While the blythe milkmaid sings as proud And holds the world in scorn. 2 O bonny is the blackbird still On top of yon fir tree On which he wipes his golden bill And blithely whistles he He sings upon the sapling oak In notes all rich and mellow Oft' have I quit towns noise, and folk In springs sweet summers weather. 3 The blackbird is a bonny bird I love his mourning suit And song in the spring mornings heard As mellow as the flute How sweet his song in April showers Pipes from his golden bill As yellow as the kingcup flowers The sweetest ditty still. . . . . If you would like to get the free ebook download, you can sign up to my studio insights (link in profile) and a link will be sent to you..

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Starling and the sun lino cut with monoprint. Will I find time on this glorious day to list some of my printmaking on my website??? Hmmmm possibly not... there are always so many wonderful things to do... have a wonderful day

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August BIRD OF THE MONTH: Blackbird - poems Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Wallace Stevens Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. II I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. III The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime. IV A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one. V I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. VI Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass. The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro. The mood Traced in the shadow An indecipherable cause. VII O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you? VIII I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. IX When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many circles. X At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply. XI He rode over Connecticut In a glass coach. Once, a fear pierced him, In that he mistook The shadow of his equipage For blackbirds. XII The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. XIII It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs. . . . If you would like to get the free download, you can sign up to my studio insights link in my profile and a link will be sent to you

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Another wire drawing...this one stands up too 😊 Godwit resting!

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August BIRD OF THE MONTH: the Blackbird. One of the lovely poems I found bu R S Thomas . If you would like to get the free download, sign up to my studio insights link in my profile and a link will be sent to you... A Blackbird Singing It seems wrong that out of this bird, Black, bold, a suggestion of dark Places about it, there yet should come Such rich music, as though the notes' Ore were changed to a rare metal At one touch of that bright bill. You have heard it often, alone at your desk In a green April, your mind drawn Away from its work by sweet disturbance Of the mild evening outside your room. A slow singer, but loading each phrase With history's overtones, love, joy And grief learned by his dark tribe In other orchards and passed on Instinctively as they are now, But fresh always with new tears. RS THOMAS

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I think we have waved goodbye to the swifts for this year... I haven't seen one locally now for a few weeks... still a few swallows around though ...

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This beautiful weather brought the cornish butterflies and others out in force today ☀️😍🐝🦋🦗🐞☀️😍

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I feel like this one is pretty much finished, it's only small at 30 x 30 cm, I used a combination of painting, screenprinting, monoprinting and stencils for the background, predominantly painting for the Rook... have a fabulous Friday!

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Coming to the end of my .August BIRD OF THE MONTH: Blackbird. I still have the poems to share which is possibly my favourite bit. If you would like to get the free download, sign up to my studio insights link in my profile and a link will be sent to you...I will be doing a different bird each month..

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This Lapwing image is a one off original combination of relief and mono print. My focus has been firmly on painting lately so my printmaking has been set aside, but it is time for me to have a look through the work i have and pop some of it onto my sadly lagging behind website. 😊

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Helping to erect a shed this evening with an audience 😍😁❤🐦🕊❤😁😍

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I love the Aberdeen estuary and other illuminated manuscripts , this is what I found about the blackbird. . . .August BIRD OF THE MONTH: the Blackbird. The greedy blackbird. If you would like to get the free download, sign up to my studio insights link in my profile and a link will be sent to you...I will be doing a different bird each month.. .

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A Cormorant as a slight digression although they are often called sea crows

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I wasn't happy with this one so I have started to play with a little more pattern...and I am liking it... nice for me to not know where I am going with it 😊

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Another bit of studio sorting and another little wire doodle...😊

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Another page in by August BIRD OF THE MONTH: the Blackbird. The greedy blackbird. Like lots of black birds they began as white until something happened to turn the black... I do like these little folk tales. If you would like to get the free download, sign up to my studio insights link in my profile and a link will be sent to you...I will be doing a different bird each month.

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One last post... I feel I have not been very positive today ... so I will leave today with the exciting news that i have this the 3rd of my new greetings cards in my collection...link in my profile if you would like further information

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I am going to be honest, I love that people buy my work, I really appreciate that they like it so much they want to own it, it means I can make more. I love to make the work, it is a compulsion, something that I need to do to feel ok, I love the research, the watching birds and the stories and poems I uncover along the way. However I really struggle with getting my work out to my audience. The main problem I have is that marketing becomes just about money and that seems to strip all the meaning, joy and purpose out of my work… it always has. Don’t get me wrong the gallery’s who sell my work and have supported me in the past are amazing and I would love to find more like them. However I also think my work should do something more than just make money. I obviously have to earn a living and pay my costs but, the best thing that my work does for me is to raise money for worthy causes…animal charities, like Mousehole Wildbird hospital, The Wildlife Trusts, The Wildfowl and Wetland Trust and Compassion in World Farming. I am very particular about the charities I have supported and their philosophy has to fit closely with mine, which is not a normal one! Does anyone else feel the same? If anyone has any ideas of way in which I can do more of this I would be really interest 😊

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On the subject of pigeons ... I spent a while looking at them a year or so ago, particularly ww1 carrier pigeons ... this is where my busy backgrounds started to emerge, the idea of them flying home despite the fact that they were being shot at from all angles...saving so many lives.

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Another page in by August BIRD OF THE MONTH: the Blackbird. Feeding...my garden is blessed with lots of birds but the Blackbirds only became visible when someone gave me a table, I put it under a feeder at the side of the garden ready for restoration, food dropped onto it and within a day or 2 I had regular blackbirds visiting 😊 If you would like to get the free download, sign up to my studio insights link in my profile and a link will be sent to you...I will be doing a different bird each month.

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This is the rook I have been working on based on the same @wwtslimbridge rook as my lino plate... still a work in progress but enjoying his personality

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I have 6 canvases on the go today this is one if the smaller ones 30 x 30 cm, still a work in progress...I find Jackdaws ever present, in towns cities, beach, cliffs, countryside...always busy and always with an air of joy about them... ❤

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I am happy to announce that If you know someone who loves Barn Owls, I now have is Ghost Owl as a greetings card ... link in my profile to all my cards.

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Another page in by August BIRD OF THE MONTH: the Blackbird. If you know of anymore stories I would be delighted to hear them. If you would like to get the free download, sign up to my studio insights link in my profile and a link will be sent to you...I will be doing a different bird each month.

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Another one of my wire pieces. A slightly stylised Rook this time 😊

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The beginnings of a Raven ... work in progress 😊

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August BIRD OF THE MONTH: the Blackbird. Have you noticed that things are usually in 3s or 7s in mythology and folk stories If you would like to get the free download, sign up to my studio insights link in my profile and a link will be sent to you...

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Can you spot three Ravens ... they were finishing dinner when I arrived and lolling about after a good meal by the time I left

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Having a little tidy up part 2 still finding some unresolved projects that I would like to revisit this cormorant is a cast in white cement... I loved this process and will revisit it one day... not enough hours in a day...

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