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Blue Damselfly
I found a strange shaped piece of wood, with stems and leaves carved on it, covered in dust and partly dotted with woodworm in the back of my barn. after doing some research I realised it was part of an old Breton cupboard bed or 'Lit clos'. The old rural houses here in Brittany in the 1800's often had these closed box beds which offered privacy in a busy shared living space and protection from draughts! I salvaged the bits of it that weren't rotten and realised how beautiful the wood and the carving was and that perhaps I could use it in my art.
This damselfly I painted on a piece of wood with a carved stem, I highlighted the stem in gold and then painted the damselfly resting on the stem.
I love watching these damselflies flying and resting in the long grass of my orchard on a summer afternoon, they look quite magical and I can get quite close to observe every little detail which I then love to sketch and paint.
Blue Damselfly is for sale €85
Lens 1915
Lens 1915 when nature returns. I have always been fascinated by maps and especially old maps where I can see the traces of history and the changes to the landscape and places that have happened since they were drawn up, so when I found this world war 1 British army map at a street market, I bought it. I have walked a large part of it when I visited the battlefields of the First World War, so many of the place names reminded me of terrible fighting and huge losses of life.
The landscape was forever changed and you can still see outlines of trenches and piles of shells on field edges that are ploughed up every year.
I wanted to paint this map with some of the wildflowers and wildlife that now frequent this landscape.
The poppy that grows wild in the fields there became the symbol of remembrance for The Royal British legion in the UK and another flower growing wild, the cornflower became the symbol of remembrance in France.
This piece of art is for sale €375
Transatlantic Robins
This portrait is of two different birds sitting opposite each other, one the European robin (Erithacus rubecula) and the other the American robin (Turdus migratorius).
I was commissioned to paint it for a customer in the USA who was born and grew up in England but who moved to the USA when her children were small and now they have become American citizens. This painting links those two countries, their similarities and their differences through these two little robins, both sharing the same name but actually of different species and eating different berries.
I have painted it on a piece of old Breton walnut wood and it is rather lovely to think of this piece of wood now looking beautiful with its robins hanging on a wall in the USA
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