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Seabirds

Pictures with a <buy now> link are available from our online shop. The others are also for sale but may take longer to send to you. Please contact us about them.

Avocets in flight 1999
signed watercolour 29 x 38 cm £500 buy now
Bass Rock Shags, July 2000
signed watercolour sketch 40 x 25 cm £450 buy now
Brent Geese
unsigned drawing 19 x 28 cm £250 buy now original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 33
Cormorants, Craigleith 1989
Framed, signed watercolour 27 x 31 cm £550 available from Birdscapes Gallery
Cormorants, Gull and Puffin 2003
signed watercolour 2003 18 x 18 cm (in mount 30cm sq) SOLD
Craigleith. Kittiwakes and Bass Rock 1999
signed watercolour sketch 38 x 27cm £350 buy now slight marks on paper
Dead Puffin
watercolour unsigned 19 x 19cm £150 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.29
Estuary Scene 1
watercolour unsigned 17 x 21 cm £130 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.32
Fidra, July 2000
unsigned watercolour sketch 40 x 28 cm £400 buy now
Gannet Chick 2010
unsigned watercolour 25 x 28 cm £450 buy now
Gannet Colony
signed watercolour 28 x 30 cm £500 available from Birdscapes Gallery
Gannets at Hermaness, Shetland 1989
signed oil painting 50 x 70 cm £2200 This was painted after a visit to Hermaness, Scotland's most northerly gannet colony, while filming for STV's Portrait of the Wild series.
Gannets on the Bass Rock (with pipe)
signed watercolour 2000 27 x 18cm £450 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.54
Gulls nesting, Fidra
unsigned watercolour 31 x 22 cm £350 buy now
Humbolt Penguins
unsigned drawing with coloured wash 14 x 13 cm in mount 30x25cm £130 buy now
Imperial and Rock Shags, Long-tailed Meadowlark, Falklands
signed watercolour 1992 20 x 28 cm £350 buy now
Kittiwake cliff
unsigned watercolour 20 x 25cm SOLD
Kittiwakes and the Bass Rock
18 x 15 cm Pen and wash in mount 30 x 25cm £130 buy now
Kittiwakes Dunbar 2002
signed watercolour sketch 28 x 20 cm £300
Kittiwakes off St Abbs Head 1986
signed oil on canvas 46 x 40 cm please enquire
Kittiwakes on the Bass Rock 1990
signed drawing 34 x 47 cm SOLD
Kittiwakes St Abbs Head 1, 2003
signed oil on canvas 51 x 61cm £please enquire
Manx Shearwaters & Juvenile Kittiwakes
signed watercolour 1988 20 x 32cm in double mount 40 x 50cm £450 available from Birdscapes Gallery
Nesting Gannets, Bass Rock
watercolour 27 x 19 cm £350 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.57
Purple Sandpiper
14 x 20 cm Pen and wash in mount 24 x 30cm SOLD original illlustration from The Herald 1990's
Redshank, Herring Gull, Little Tern
unsigned watercolour 27 x 22 cm £350 buy now
Resting Waders and Gull 2004
Resting Waders and Gull 2004
signed oil 30 x 40 cm please enquire
Ringed Plover distraction display
unsigned watercolour 12 x 15 cm in A4 mount £130 buy now illustration from 'Looking at Birds' p44
Ringed Plover, shaded sitting
9 x 16 cm watercolour in mount 20 x 25 £100 buy now
Seabird Cliffs 2008
signed drawing with chalk 54 x 64 cm £1750 Framed
Shags and Guillemots Bass Rock 2002
signed watercolour 38cm x 28cm £500 buy now
Sketch for 'Kittiwakes returning at St Abb's Head'
signed drawing 24 x 30 cm £300 buy now one of two similar drawings
Smew, males and females
signed watercolour 1991 24 x 33 cm in mount 40 x 50cm £450 available from Birdscapes Gallery
Swallow-tailed Gulls 1999
signed watercolour 25 x 35 cm £500 buy now
Waved Albatross displaying
unsigned watercolour 18 x 22cm in mount 40cmsq £400 buy now original illustration from On the Rocks by Bryan Nelson p.50
Waved Albatross, Galapagos
Young Giant Petrels
signed drawing 1992 12 x 23 cm £200 buy now
Young Shag, Craigleith 1995
unsigned pencil drawing 25 x 35 cm Framed £300

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