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Friday, 20 April 2018
Thursday, 19 April 2018
Another of my favourite but often maligned birds … Ink and mixed media Rook .
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Saturday, 14 April 2018
I have always been fascinated by pigeons generally and their symbiotic relationship with humans…but I think my Pigeon obsession really took hold when I learned of the Passenger Pigeons dimise, the passenger pigeon in the early 1800s may have been the most numerous bird in the world, with an estimated population of at least three billion birds, Martha the last Passenger Pigeon Died 1st September 1914, an extinction caused entirely by humans…
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Friday, 13 April 2018
More lovely pigeons! #Repost from @princeandpilgrim The Cherry Thief by Beccy Marshall, 75 x 65cm, Mixed Media on Wood, £625. The Spring Exhibition opens in just over a week and we are so.excited. Beccy Marshall’s latest paintings will be on display, along with work by many other artists. It promises to be a visual feast that is not to be missed!
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#Repost from @jacksonfgallery Kurt Jackson ‘Solitary’ mixed media on board. The dove of peace when used by Picasso created an extraordinarily powerful and lasting political symbol. Adopted by campaigners for peace, liberation and equality around the globe, the dove also represented his identification with the weak and vulnerable and a longing for safety and protection. The image also became associated with the relationship between peace and the suffering of women and children in all wars. Staring at racing pigeons you are reminded of their wild free relatives nearby. If the dove [the domesticated pigeon] has represented peace and freedom then extend that to the wild species and you have the ultimate metaphor. During the Pigeonholed exhibition (23rd March to 21st April 2018), 10% of the proceeds of sale of any of these works will be donated by Kurt and Caroline Jackson to the Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund, of which they are Patrons. #prisonersofconscience conscience #amnesty #amnestyinternational #pigeon #dove #charity #pacifist
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Thursday, 12 April 2018
Wednesday, 11 April 2018
Tuesday, 10 April 2018
Wednesday, 4 April 2018
Sunday, 1 April 2018
Saturday, 31 March 2018
One of my favourite poems! . .#Repost from @bearspeakstothestars “The wild god points to your side. You are bleeding heavily. You have been bleeding for a long time, Possibly since you were born. There is a bear in the wound.” From SOMETIMES A WILD GOD. https://ift.tt/2pVVaGZ #WildGodBook #WildWords #BearsInWounds #Soulwork #Poetry
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Friday, 30 March 2018
It is thought that the rabbits around easter come from Pagan symbolism, representing fertility and new growth. However rabbits do not lay eggs…they are though quite like Hares. Young hares, (leverets), lie hidden in the long grass to avoid detection from predators. Motionless and perfectly camouflaged, the leverets can be found sharing the same space as Lapwings who use similar places to their own eggs. It’s therefore possible that people assumed that hares laid eggs…. This guardian article is interesting on the subject https://ift.tt/2oquX4h Happy Easter however you celebrate it!
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Tuesday, 27 March 2018
Sunday, 25 March 2018
Friday, 23 March 2018
I just adore this painting…by William Blake #Repost from @blakeinsussex … . ‘The Ghost of a Flea’ by #williamblake Circa 1819. . #williamblake #poet #artist #painting #mystic #poetry #spiritual #art #visionary #spirituality #original #romantic #artistlife #paintingaday #mysticism #poetrybooks #spiritual #arthistory #visionaryart #spirituality #blakeinsussex #songsofinnocence #originaldesign #artistsoninstagram #awaken #poemoftheday #sussex #felpham
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Thursday, 22 March 2018
The Guadalupe caracara or mourning caracara an extinct bird of prey. Described as “evil” and “vicious” it was driven to extinction by a hunting and poisoning campaign led by goat herders on Guadalupe Island. In March 1897, only one bird was encountered,but in 1900 collector Rollo Beck found 11 and preserved nine as scientific specimens. It is possible that he shot the last of the caracaras believing they were common. There was 1 possible sighting in 1903 but by 1906 they certainly extinct. . .
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Wednesday, 21 March 2018
The largest know Cormorant ever to have existed was the spectacled cormorant or Pallas’s cormorant Phalacrocorax perspicillatus it inhabited Bering Island and possibly other places in the Komandorski Islands and the nearby coast of Kamchatka in the far northeast of Russia. It was described as large, clumsy and almost flightless although it was probably reluctant to fly rather than physically unable, Georg Steller in 1741 write that “they weighed 12–14 pounds, so that one single bird was sufficient for three starving men.” Apparently cormorants are normally unpalatable, Steller said “this bird tasted delicious, particularly when it was cooked in the way of the native Kamtchadals, who encased the whole bird in clay and buried it and baked it in a heated pit” The population declined quickly after further visitors to the area started collecting the birds for food and feathers, reports of whaling grounds and large populations of Arctic foxes and other animals with valuable pelts led to an influx of whalers and fur traders into the region; the last birds were reported to have lived around 1850 on Ariy Rock islet, off the northwestern tip of Bering Island.
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Tuesday, 20 March 2018
Happy equinox…maybe we should take the last male rhino dying today as a turning point … We will have nothing left soon… If we don’t start to make a stand for the wildlife we have left! . . . #lastmalestanding #sudanwhiterhino #extinction #6thgreatextinction #equinox #turningpoint
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Monday, 19 March 2018
More research…from illuminated manuscripts to Medieval playing cards “9 of Hounds” from “The Courtly Hunt Cards (Das Hofjagdspiel).” Workshop of Konrad Witz (Upper Rhineland, 1440–45), paper (pasteboard) with watercolor, opaque paint, and gold over pen and ink, 6 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches . . . . .
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Saturday, 17 March 2018
So many stories to tell….this is the Sharpe’s rail (Gallirallus sharpei) It is known only from the a specimen of unknown origin, but it has been speculated that it originated from Indonesia . Due to the lack of recent records, it has been considered extinct but new evidence suggests it to be an invalid identification…
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Thursday, 15 March 2018
Monday, 12 March 2018
Sunday, 11 March 2018
Saturday, 10 March 2018
Friday, 9 March 2018
I am always transfixed by religious icons and devotional paintings …having no religious background, I have never been completely comfortable about applying the process to painting animals, , but having visited Truro cathedral with our degree students I am back to doing a little further research… :)
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Thursday, 8 March 2018
Pigeons pair for life and it is for love that they return home….. “There is no strict division between pigeons and doves, which share certain features. The wild rock dove has long been domesticated and ‘escaped’ to live wild as the familiar town pigeon. There are many species all over the world’ #rspb
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Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Monday, 5 March 2018
Gool Peran Lowen! Happy St Piran’s Day! Carving by violet pinwills in Truro cathedral “The heathen Irish tied him to a mill-stone, rolled it over the edge of a cliff into a stormy sea, which immediately became calm, and the saint floated safely over the water to land upon the sandy beach of Perranzabuloe in Cornwall. His first disciples are said to have been a badger, a fox and a bear” “He landed in Cornwall, and there established himself as a hermit. His sanctity and his austerity won for him the veneration of all around, and the gift of miracles, with which he was favoured, brought many to seek his charitable aid. He was joined at Perranzabuloe by many of his Christian converts and together they founded the Abbey of Lanpiran, with Piran as abbot. St Piran ‘rediscovered’ tin-smelting (tin had been smelted in Cornwall since before the Romans’ arrival, but the methods had since been lost) when his black hearthstone, which was evidently a slab of tin-bearing ore, had the tin smelt out of it and rise to the top in the form of a white cross, thus the image on the flag”
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Sunday, 4 March 2018
Friday, 2 March 2018
This is an ink drawing of Kaiser he was a German war pigeon captured by the American forces in the battle of Meuse in WWI. He was used in the breeding program producing over 100 offsprings. He died in 1949 at age 33, making him the oldest Pigeon in recorded history and the only Pigeon to have served in both world wars . . . .
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Thursday, 1 March 2018
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