Pekko
6×6 inch oil on board
SOLD
Finnish Laphund – Sold
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I met a gorgeous dog the other day, a Finnish Laphund called Pekko. Such a sweet dog, and so good looking too.
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Category Archives: Animal Art
Little Blue Tit Painting – Sold
Little Blue Tit
4×4 inch oil on board
SOLD
I felt inspired by the blue tits living in the gardens to do a little 4×4 inch oil painting. They’re really busy starting their families and they regularly come to my window feeder for a snack, so I get a close look at them. Such pretty little birds. I love their bandit style eye masks and their cheeky, confident attitude.
Little Hare Painting
A little hare oil painting. I wanted to try out this colour combination, the organgey colours in his fur against the blue/greens of the background. I love the contrast, really zingy! And hares are such fun to paint.
Little Hare
6×6 inch oil on board
£65 for sale
Buy it here or contact me direct if you’d like him.
Little Robin
A new bird painting. This time it’s a robin. I watch these guys breeding every spring in the gardens around here. They come quite close and even sit on the railings just outside the house, waiting for me to weed the plants on the doorstep so they can get at the insects in the disturbed earth. This is one of last years youngsters.
Little Robin
6×6 inch oil on board
£65 for sale
Buy it here or contact me direct if you’d like him.
A Burmese Cat Painting – Sold
This is Annabella, a stunning Burmese cat. Her colouring is so pretty and delicate, she was quite a challenge to paint. She is a tortoiseshell and her creamy coat has blue/lilac tones in it. But against that lush, red background her coat really seems to glow.
Annabella
20×16 oil on board
SOLD
The reds were a difficult part of the painting. There are several reds from cold, blue reds like Alizarin Crimson to bright, warm reds like Cadmium Red.
Highland Cow – Sold
A small oil painting of a highland cow. I love these ladies. I often wonder how they see where they’re going in all that hair. :-)
Highland Cow
6×6 oil on board
SOLD
This is a 6×6 inch oil painting on board. Here’s a close up….
Peak A Boo – A New Hare Painting
Not quite the Easter Bunny, he’s a brown hare, but it seems appropriate that I’ve finished him at Easter. But don’t you love that face? I adore his big ears and his amazing whiskers! I’ve been wanting to paint him for some time and had this idea floating around in my head. I wanted to have that face popping up over the frame looking out at you, with all those amazing whiskers on show.
Peak A Boo
16×12 inch acrylic on board
for sale
He’s a 16×12 inch acrylic painting on board. Now I just need to choose the right frame for him. Here’s a close up of his face…
I’ve been calling him Peak A Boo in my head all this time, so that’s got to be the title. :-)
A Great Tit Painting – Sold
This is a quick little oil painting of a Great Tit on a branch. It’s a sight I see a lot, all I have to do is look out of my window and there they are, beautiful little birds, singing in the trees and going about their feathery business.
Great Tit
8×8 inch oil on board
SOLD
Here is today’s singer. I just hope the weather warms up for him very soon. At least there was some warm sun for a couple of hours.
Hare Sketch
I keep hoping spring will come soon! Maybe that’s why I’m so inspired by hares at the moment. This is a sketch for a 16×12 inch painting I’m working on. I just love the shapes and the expression on his face. And all those wonderful whiskers!
Starling
Starlings are such gorgeous birds, those iridescent feathers shining in the sun! I watched a small flock of starlings at Camden Lock in the summer, picking up scraps that the tourists by the canal. It’s a lovely place to be on a hot sunny day for both humans and birds.
Starling
30×24 cm acrylic on paper
This starling was a juvenile who seemed to be part way between his brown baby plumage and his fabulous adult coat. He was a glorious mix of colour.
We used to think of them as pests here in London, years ago. There were so many starlings and house sparrows in those days, yelling nosily in the trees with big flocks of starlings flying overhead in the evenings, heading for their beds. We thought they’d always be there. But we were wrong. We lost our sparrows and starlings and the skies were silent for many years. It’s true, you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.
Recently the starlings have started to come back to the centre of the city and we’ve even see a small flock living not too far from the house. They’re back and it’s wonderful to see them again. Maybe the house sparrows will be back one day too.
