These are my golden birds, a new adventure for me.
I’m really enjoying painting these beautiful birds, quirky, characterful, fascinating. And learning to identify them better as I go. We hear them more often than we see them perhaps, and their energy is contagious. I do become drawn in to their detail, and can’t help trying to respond to that with the paint, but their charm and magic are also what I’d like to convey, and perhaps that’s where the gold comes in. A precious medium for these treasures of the animal world, their stories woven in to our folklore.
They are made using 23 carat gold leaf around the oil painting study.
Pink and gold, Coal tit
Oil and 23 carat gold – 20cm x 20cm
The inquisitive Magpie
Oil and 23 carat gold – 20cm x 20cm
The little Wren
Oil and 23 carat gold – 20cm x 20cm
All the blues
Oil and 23 carat gold – 20cm x 20cm
Firecrest
Oil and 23 carat gold – 20cm x 20cm
A charm of Goldfinch
Oil and 23 carat gold – 30cm x 30cm
These are just some examples of the varied flock and are exhibited at;
Barnes Fine art Gallery, London
The Byre gallery, Millbrook, Cornwall
The Harbour Gallery, Portscatho, Cornwall
Please go and browse, as the collection changes all the time.
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