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PPP Penguins

May 22, 2022

These cute behavioural studies of penguins are from a worthy monograph on the subject by Tony D Williams published in 1995 by Oxford University Press [not to be confused with a later monograph published by Poyser!] Designed for the ‘professional scientist and the serious amateur ornithologist’ it was part of a series on Bird Families […]

Filed Under: Birds - otherwise uncategorised, Blog, Publications

Dust bathing sparrows

May 12, 2022

In early 1946, when he was 17, John won the RSPB’s Junior Bird Recorders’ Club annual drawing competition. He told me once it was with a picture of a sparrow dust-bathing, so I was particularly delighted to come across this (much later) picture recently. John delighted in observing and drawing bird behaviours. His book Looking […]

Filed Under: Birds, Early Works Tagged With: Every picture tells a story

Farfield Meeting House (and Studio)

May 5, 2022

Farfield Friends Meeting House near Addingham in West Yorkshire is now in the keeping of the Historic Chapels’ Trust   www.hca.org.uk but in the late 1950’s and early 60’s John rented it as a studio at a time when he was unsure whether to stay in Edinburgh (where he was teaching at the Edinburgh College of […]

Filed Under: Biography, Blog, Early Works

Artist’s cards – and the originals

May 3, 2022

Artist’s cards are now available to buy individually, or to make up your own set of six.  They feature a range of John’s work from his seabirds to mammals, owls and eagles, as well as field and garden birds.  Many are also illustrations from his books, Lines from Nature   and Land Marks and Sea Wings. […]

Filed Under: Blog, Publications

BIRDscapes Exhibition 5-20 March 2022

February 25, 2022

We are very pleased to say that a considerable number of John’s works will be exhibited at the BIRDscapes Gallery in Holt, Norfolk next month.  Over 30 framed and mounted pictures have been sent down south to be part of the ‘Collectors Exhibition’. As well as the opportunity to see John’s pictures in reality and […]

Filed Under: Blog, Exhibitions

Surprising sights and the role of the imagination

January 28, 2022

Looking at Birds is aptly subtitled ‘an antidote to Field Guides‘. John is making the point that identifying birds is only the beginning, and that to be open to other ways of watching birds will greatly enhance our time spent doing it.  He suggests that we should enjoy the “many times when, because of light […]

Filed Under: Publications, Reviews - Looking at Birds, Uncategorized

A new project

January 21, 2022

Happy New Year to everyone and a big welcome to all our new followers. Just to let you know that my new project will be to add more of the original drawings from ‘Looking at Birds’ to the website. Some are already here in the book illustration gallery   but there are plenty more in my […]

Filed Under: Blog, Reviews - Looking at Birds

An animated Flipbook for you!

November 29, 2021

The first of three flip books showing the Alphabet pictures. Click on links on back pages to see all three booklets [alternatively go direct to the Alphabet blog here]

Filed Under: Blog, Pictures, Publications

U is for…(U,V,W,X,Y,Z)

November 24, 2021

U is for…  unidentified (!) As a fairly hopeless birder compared to John there are always going to be some drawings that I can’t identify.  Here’s a few where I need your help  –  thank you, hive-mind! see also  Avocets to Egrets (A,B,C,D,E)   Fairy Terns to Jackass Penguins (F,G,H,I,J)    Kentish Plovers to Ospreys (K,L,M,N,O)  […]

Filed Under: Birds, Blog, Pictures

P is for… (P,Q,R,S,T)

November 19, 2021

P  is for… Pochard, Peregrine chasing Red Grouse and Puffins on Fidra A winter visitor, the pochard  feeds on seeds, waterweed, snails and other aquatic invertebrates below the water’s surface, so quite appropriately seen here underwater. The peregrine is very much a bird of the air. This one is an illustration in Lines from Nature […]

Filed Under: Animals and other wildlife, Birds, Blog, Pictures

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