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  • Little owls settle in to newly renovated home

    Little owls settle in to newly renovated home

    The Yorkshire Wolds is great ‘little owl’ country and I love to paint these charismatic owls. Yet, acold spring last year and freezing conditions which were so severe for theprevious...

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  • A Farm-tastic Week

    A Farm-tastic Week

    I took my two daughters to the farm I grew up on inGreat Givendale and showed them the barn where cattle feed is kept. They werefascinated at all the different...

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  • Clan Take Over: New boar on the block

    Clan Take Over: New boar on the block

    I've just seen a new boar at the badger sett I visit. He seems to have taken over the clan.I saw him for the first time last week as I was sitting...

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  • A Good Hare Day

    A Good Hare Day

     It’s Mad March Hare month again - my favourite time to spot boxinghares in the fields. Although there are no shortages of them here on theYorkshire Wolds, to get photographs good enough...

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  • Nest Box Wars Commence!

    Nest Box Wars Commence!

    Spring is in the air and nest box 'wars' have begun. I've been following the antics of a pair of kestrels and a pair of tawny owls from my studio window for...

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  • Sketching Buzzards

    Sketching Buzzards

    I sketched these buzzards someyears ago. They make such nice subjects to paint. But recently I've been fascinated by a pair circling in thevalley below my studio and decided it...

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  • New BBC Wildlife Local Patch Reporter!

    New BBC Wildlife Local Patch Reporter!

    Hello, I’m delighted to introduce myself as a new local patch reporter for BBC Wildlife Magazine. I am a wildlife artist and will be bringing you a painter’s perspective on...

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  • A prickly painting model

    A prickly painting model

    Remember the hedgehog I rescued last winter? I grew so fond of him I decided to put him to work as a model.  This painting of him posing in a...

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  • Elephant Watch 2014

    Elephant Watch 2014

    Just wanted to share some of the pictures from the safari I led to Kenya last month. These are from Samburu's Elephant Watch Camp.  This magical place is run by...

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  • Broody Pheasant Joins the Family

    Broody Pheasant Joins the Family

    A pheasant hen decided to bring up her brood right on the doorstep last month. I fed her on mealworms and before she ran to gobble them up she would...

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  • Barn Owls Bow Out

    My summer exhibition is now over. The barn owls worked their magic and people flocked to see them.  Now it's time for them to take a bow and say good...

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  • Looking for owls

    My summer exhibition is in full swing and people seem to be really enjoying the new paintings of barn owls.  Tomorrow night I will be giving a talk about the...

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  • Saving hedgehogs to help the State of Nation

    Saving hedgehogs to help the State of Nation

    This month I released the young hedgehogs I found in the garden last winter.  They didn't know quite what to make of the garden and spent some time sheltered by...

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  • Beautiful Barn Owls Headline Summer Exhibition.

    Beautiful Barn Owls Headline Summer Exhibition.

    These paintings and limited edition prints of barn owls are among a 'barn owl extravaganza' to go show at my summer exhibition, which runs from June 1-16th. There will also...

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  • Getting sheep dogs back to work

    Getting sheep dogs back to work

    This smiley-faced dog is one of the chief instructors at a York-based training centre for abandoned and unwanted border collies who will be visiting the gallery next Sunday. He reminds...

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  • Wildflower meadow for National Gardening Week

    Wildflower meadow for National Gardening Week

    This week is National Gardening Week and I'm planting a wild flower meadow in recognition. Of course I also want to attract lots of birds, insects and butterflies to the garden...

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  • Penguins are B B B British!!

    Penguins are B B B British!!

    Falkland Islanders voted overwhelmingly to remain a UK overseas territory over the weekend which means you won't need a visa to visit the island's fantastic penguin colonies. I painted these...

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  • Wild Welsh Mountain Goats

    Wild Welsh Mountain Goats

    During a recent trip to Wales I was struck by how well the goats that roam wild on the slopes of Snowdonia have adapted to the mountainous terrain . These...

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  • Fox Hole in the Snow

    Fox Hole in the Snow

    I spent the day photographing the snow this week and looking at how the wildlife is coping with the cold when I came across this perfectly round patch of uncovered grass where...

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  • Short eared owls about?

    Short eared owls about?

    After nearly two days of solid rain, I'm hoping the short-eared owls will be hungry and out hunting today. I have to drive out to Hull to deliver an original...

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  • The making of a hare painting

    The making of a hare painting

    It's taken months to finish, measures more than 5ft long and needed its own, bespoke frame (which I built and then painted in a complimentary wash), but by goodness am...

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  • First weekend of exhibition a success

    First weekend of exhibition a success

     The first weekend of the exhibition has been a great success. We've had over 600 people through the doors so far.  This lady spent ages in my studio, I think she...

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  • Duck on Ice

    Duck on Ice

    I've just finished this painting of two drakes and a duck for my exhibition which runs from November 3-18th. People often ask me how I paint so I decided to...

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  • Britain's most vulnerable species

    Britain's most vulnerable species

    After the exotica of Kenya, my attention was brought home to our own endangered species after I found two baby hedgehogs in the garden. They look too small to be able...

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  • Maneless Lions: Samburu's Unique Wildlife

    Maneless Lions: Samburu's Unique Wildlife

    Many of the animals found in Samburu are unique to this northern region of Kenya - including these mane less lions. It is not known why these mature males do not have...

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  • Samburu Bird Life

    Samburu Bird Life

    The bird life in Samburu was fantastic. These vulturine guinea fowl became iconic - a symbol of the safari I led. They were everywhere and were real characters. Such great fun to watch.  I felt...

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  • Untitled

    Untitled

    This is the dining room at Elephant Watch Camp in Samburu - an eco-camp on the banks of the beautiful Ewaso Ngiro run by the wife of the world's most famous...

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  • Lake Nakuru

    Lake Nakuru

    Recent heavy rains had watered down the salinity of Lake Nakuru so there weren't as many flamingos as usual when we visited. But there was still plenty to see -...

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  • Foal-tastic Zebra!

    Foal-tastic Zebra!

    After a week in the Masai Mara my group and I spent a restful few days at a lodge on the shores of Lake Naivasha belonging to the world's foremost authority...

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  • Lions in the Mara

    Lions in the Mara

      Lions spend 16 hours a day asleep so it was good to get the chance to photograph some action during the trip I led to the Masai Mara. These...

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  • Cheetah Perch

    Cheetah Perch

    The big cats are always the biggest draw on any safari and this cheetah was so accustomed to being the star of the show she even leaped up onto a...

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  • The World's Greatest Animal Migration

    The World's Greatest Animal Migration

    The sheer numbers of wildebeest and zebra that cross Kenya's Masai Mara every year are hard to describe and photograph adequately. We saw hundreds and thousands. They simply cover the vast plains. The...

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  • The Magic of the Masai Mara

    The Magic of the Masai Mara

    I've just got home from leading a trip to Kenya. I knew things were going to go well when we spotted this leopard on the first day. She had just killed...

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  • Beautiful Collection of Owl Art Prints

    Beautiful Collection of Owl Art Prints

    Many of the limited edition owl art prints in this collection feature owls living in my garden. I favour a detailed style to capture the individual character of these magnificent...

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  • Kes' Brood

    Kes' Brood

    This gorgeous trio is half of my resident kestrel's brood. I've been feeding Kes and his mate for years from my bird table and after years of encouragement I've finally persuaded...

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  • Badger's unlikely lodgers

    Badger's unlikely lodgers

    Whilst examing a badger sett looking for signs of occupancy recently, I stumbled across a fox den. The vixen was using part of the sett for her cubs and when...

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  • Roe Doe at Longdale

    Roe Doe at Longdale

    I keep seeing this roe doe near the gallery here at Fotherdale. I think she has a fawn stashed somewhere close by. The cold weather we had in April means...

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  • House hunting for little owls

    House hunting for little owls

    When I spotted a pair of little owls inspecting rabbit holes for their nesting potential in Thixendale, I decided to show them some other potential properties. Little owls only use rabbit holes when...

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  • Gannets at Bempton

    Gannets at Bempton

    The gannets have arrived at Bempton RSPB reserve in huge numbers. The reserve near Flamborough is always a great place to visit and at this time of year it is...

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  • A Mad March Hare

    A Mad March Hare

    We've all seen lambs racing around in the springtime, or those moments when dogs race round the garden at full pelt. I watched this hare have such a moment. It...

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  • John Craven interviews me for BBC Countryfile

    John Craven interviews me for BBC Countryfile

    John Craven visited the gallery today to interview me for BBC Countryfile.  It was exciting to meet him, he is such a professional. But the subject matter was gruesome. He...

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  • Clouds of corn buntings

    Clouds of corn buntings

    Hasn't the weather been mild? To think last week the fields were white with snow. And today temperatrues have risen to 15C!My column in the Yorkshire Post on Saturday featured a...

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  • Any chance of a snow box?

    Any chance of a snow box?

    There are days when my wildlife subjects are so utterly disinterested in posing for me!I've had the image in my mind for a while now and I know it will...

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  • Swan Special

    Swan Special

    Some days things just don't go to plan and I find I have to make the best of things. The other day I set out to Wakefield after some visitors...

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  • Photographing Swans for Paintings

    Photographing Swans for Paintings

    I came across these swans on the formal lake at Foutains Abbey near Ripon whilst on a family day out last week. I couldn't resist photographing them. Swans are relatively...

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  • Field Fare Frenzy

    Field Fare Frenzy

    The garden pond was bustling with bird life as the snow thawed this week. There were bullfinches, goldfinches, black birds, tree sparrows and these rather beautiful field fares. The field fares...

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