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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More Barn owls ... I am definitely working too small at the moment but interested to watch them unfold lots of unexpected happy accidents to build on ... maybe... 😁

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Starlings...this time, in summer a few starling hang around i see them in the local village, against a backdrop of power lines and traffic noise... so trying to communicate that and that regardless of the modern world around them, they are still one of the highlights of my day!

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Curlew...such a fantastic site l I love to see the flying but also love their mournful song... this is one of the first of my new work to exist in its entirety beyond the computer as an actual painting, all be it on a scrappy bit of A4 cartridge paper... looking forward now to working on a slightly larger scale...

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Starling linocut with screenprinting, collage and painting

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I am finding I like the pieces with a fairly strong area of dark and a bit of structure.. there is always a pole, road, shed or path in the landscape so these I think begin to represent that ... the more I look at them the more I think they are like the Landscape as seen when driven through ...

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As i have been working very intuitively without exact purposeful outcomes in mind, it is lovely to discover bits if detail ... starting to sketch some birds for these backgrounds

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Painting, screen printing, cutting up and drawing over... at some point I am determined to add birds to these backgrounds but still rather enjoying establishing what works for me and what doesn't...

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Something a little darker... beautiful starry night here in Cornwall... I find at dusk my senses are heightened, sometimes my eyes are not as reliable as the could be...shapes move and change, but with a flash of white and a screech... I realise I just missed the Barn Owl...

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Tonight a Crow digital collage from an abstract landscape painting and an ink drawing which is one of my most popular cards 😊 I will be making some actual painting when I have a bit of time but I am enjoying working out what I am chasing using Photoshop

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Just wow!!! Great tit nesting ❤❤❤

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And just because i want to share some poetry by Mary Oliver here is another Owl Coming down out of the freezing sky with its depths of light, like an angel, or a Buddha with wings, it was beautiful, and accurate, striking the snow and whatever was there with a force that left the imprint of the tips of its wings—five feet apart— and the grabbing thrust of its feet, and the indentation of what had been running through the white valleys of the snow— and then it rose, gracefully, and flew back to the frozen marshes to lurk there, like a little lighthouse, in the blue shadows— so I thought: maybe death isn’t darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us— as soft as feathers— that we are instantly weary of looking, and looking, and shut our eyes, not without amazement, and let ourselves be carried, as through the translucence of mica, to the river that is without the least dapple or shadow, that is nothing but light—scalding, aortal light— in which we are washed and washed out of our bones.. . . . . . . . #wip #illustration #wildlifepainting #adoseofnature #barnowl #wildbird #contemporaryprintmaking #humananimalrelationship #contemporaryart #sketchbook #inthestudio #collageart #creativityandplay #camoflage #anthrozoology #abstractlandscape #acryiicpainting. #landscapepainting #cornishfields #cornwallpainting #mixedmediapainting #contemporarylandscapepainting #cornwallart #cornishfarm #farmlandbird #winsorandnewtonacrylics #screenprinting

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Another Barn Owl ... appearing and disappearing in the same moment barely seen ... And a poem by RS Thomas BARN OWL Mostly it is a pale face hovering in the afterdraught of the spirit, making both ends meet on a scream. It is the breath of the churchyard, the forming of white frost in a believer, when he would pray; it is soft feathers camouflaging a machine. It repeats itself year after year in its offspring, the staring pupils it teaches its music to, that is the voice of God in the darkness cursing himself fiercely for his lack of love. ii. and there the owl happens like white frost as cruel and as silent and the time on its blank face is not now so the dead have nothing to go by and are fast or slow but never punctual as the alarm is over their bleached bones of its night-strangled cry. by R. S. Thomas from The Way of It (1977)

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Collaging Barn Owl drawings over abstract landscapes ... I do enjoy this process, I am finding it endlessly creative of possibilities all whilst thinking about the world that our wildlife navigate and the way they appear to us as fleeting glimpses.... . . . . . . #wip #illustration #wildlifepainting #adoseofnature #barnowl #wildbird #contemporaryprintmaking #humananimalrelationship #contemporaryart #sketchbook #inthestudio #collageart #creativityandplay #camoflage #anthrozoology #abstractlandscape #acryiicpainting. #landscapepainting #cornishfields #cornwallpainting #mixedmediapainting #contemporarylandscapepainting #cornwallart #cornishfarm #farmlandbird #winsorandnewtonacrylics

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#Repost @artdesigncornwall • • • • • • Our last FREE workshop for a little while follow the link if you want to join the mailing list for new dates http://bit.ly/2UuBEiJ. .

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Happy May Day, Labour day, Beltane or what ever you choose to call it... I personally love this time of year lots of bird activity and glorious hedge row colours which I held in my mind whilst painting this background. In cornwall we have a number of May celebrations, related to fertility and spring today is Padstow Obby Oss, fantastic traditions, dance and rituals combined...

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Still working through ideas with these and enjoying the process but time for some critical evaluation tomorrow I think, so I can start building on the things that are working and reduce the things that are not... also I need more birds to play with... but that's ok because as you might have noticed I quite like drawing birds 😂😍🤣

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Through towns and villages across a noise landscape ... hinking about migration and starlings

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A little trip to @nttrelissick gardens to drop some new work off at the gallery for the summer show... I can't wait to see it all transformed, it is always a great exhibition in a gorgeous location!

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Beautiful starlings always lift my spirits... I have stood beneath more than 200000 passing over on their way to roost at the @rspb_love_nature nature reserve at Marazion and felt like I was physically levitating in their wake ...

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Oystercatchers... printmaking and painting collage ...loving the process of discovery and exploration...

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Another digital collage, of abstract landscape and linocut birds, quite busy but that is kind of the point of it... Lapwings and landscape... . . . . . . #wip #illustration #contemporaryprintmaking #humananimalrelationship #ukprintmakers #get_imprinted #contemporaryprintmaking #printmakingtoday #creativeinspiration #happyaccident #patterndesign #patternmaking #repeatpattern #printandpattern #sketchbook #inthestudio #collageart #creativityandplay #camoflage #anthrozoology #abstractlandscape #acryiicpainting. #landscapepainting #cornishlanes #cornwallpainting #mixedmediapainting #contemporarylandscapepainting #cornwallart #cornishmoors #moorland #winsorandnewtonacrylics

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More collaging with some abstract painted backgrounds and printmaking, enjoying the process of descovery...moving the birds around to create stronger compostions which articulate my ideas of wildlife navigating our 21st century world and the wonder they inspire in me.... does it do what I want it to?

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A bit of fun with printing pattern over some less than perfect linocut in the studio this afternoon ...

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Purely printmaking for this one as a completely handcrafted contrast to my digitally created collage yesterday....linocut with monoprint of lovely lapwings always a joy to watch, I see them mostly around the Hayle estuary in cornwall .

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So much fun to be had with a computer and a few images... this is a digital collage created from a few monoprinted bird images and an ambstract landscape painting, it really helps me to think about compositions... love it

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Collaging,,print making and abstracted landscape painting with a lapwing... thoroughly enjoying this process at the moment.

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More collage play... all a bit too busy but that us the fun of this process I can try it out before I fully commit to it 😊

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Some shapes and colours I was holding in my mind whilst painting this morning ...

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Patterned bird and abstract landscape collage play

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One of my little lambs was a little unwell last night, he had abit of stomach ache bless him...so I was up checking on him at 2.30 am but he seems ok again this morning ... another little ink sketch of him... ❤

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I wasn't really achieving what I wanted to yesterday with my drawings but i am trying to suspend judgement and enjoy pushing some ink around. This my 'Strong' project @elliegregor with a dumbbell

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Back to print making last day @tremenheeresculpturegardens for the @nsanewlyn ExLibris exhibition tomorrow for this linocut with monoprint Responding in part to ... The Risen He stands, filling the doorway In the shell of earth. He lifts wings, he leaves the remains of something, A mess of offal, muddled as an afterbirth. His each wingbeat – a convicts release, What carries will be plenty. He slips behind the world’s brow As music escapes its skull, its clock and its skyline. Under his sudden shadow, flames cry out among thickets When he soars, his shape Is cross, eaten by light, On the Creator’s face He shifts world weirdly as sunspots Emerge as earthquakes. A burning unconsumed, A whirling tree – Where he alights A skin sloughs from a leafless apocalypse. On his lens Each atom engraves with a diamond In the wind–fondled crucible of his splendour The dirt becomes God. But when will he land On a man’s wrist. Ted Hughes

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As I sit invigilating for the @nsanewlyn ExLibris show @tremenheeresculpturegardens I feel very humbled and grateful for the time people spend looking at my work ...(and the work of other artists in the show) the visitors don't know if I am one of the artists or a gallery assistant and I am only able to see the engagement with my particular pieces on a cctv screen so their time spent is purely about the viewers interest in the work ❤ it is really hard I find to get genuine feedback about your artwork so this is a valuable experience.

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Not a lot of chance of making a drawing today with hungry lambs eating my paper but we tried... 😂🤩❤

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Just in case you missed it in my stories this is the flock the lambs will join...

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Reading in the sun ☀️ mindfulness and the art of drawing by Wendy Ann Greenhalgh . . @artofmindfulness

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Before I move on from my sheep this is lovely Kevin now longer with us but always fondly remembered... he was our super tame sheep and encouraged the same in the others...

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Last few days of the @nsanewlyn show @tremenheeresculpturegardens I am looking forward to invigilating on Saturday so I can spend some quality time with the work and the texts

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A painting in ink and acrylic wash of our lovely George another of our flock, he is 10 years old and a French ouessant rare breed primitive sheep, he is definitely not the boss in the flock but he is always happy to see us and gets to us first at feed time.usually gets pushed out of the way by the girls but he doesn't seem to mind too much.

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Great evening @rogue_theatre

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A well spent hour which passed in a flash drawing lambs with ink and a feather, almost impossible to get wrapped up in detail ... and I took a mindful approach so as to suspend judgement of my outcomes as that just gets right in the way!!!

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Another of my little flock, this is Olga, she is a Manx Loaghtan Ewe and she is 10 years old she has been with me for 9 of those years, being a primitive breed she tends to be a bit flighty and weary even if me, she has had one lamb Luna born at the time of a supermoon. When I paint animals and birds I am trying to represent a unique individual, a character with thoughts and a personality, as Thomas Berry said 'subjects to commune with'... Painted a few years ago in ink and acrylic wash on canvas,, she became one of my most popular images and has been made into a card and print .

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This is lovely Spoonie in the wind today...she is the most tame of the rest of the flock, very talkative and enjoys her routine, she comes to find us if we haven't fed her and stands at the gate calling... ♥️. . . . . #countryside #countrylife #farmlife #countryliving #animalinterations #animalassistedinterventions #mindfulness #natureassistedinterventions #sheep #lambs #animalassistedtherapy #sheepofinstagram #loveofsheep #naturetherapy #mentalhealth #wellbeing

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