This gallery features original, one-off, works on paper, made directly in the field, often part of a wider body of work or project. All works are available to purchase unless listed as otherwise. Only selected works are listed on the website so do get in touch if you have a specific interest or if a piece you like has been listed as sold.
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Massingham Heath Project | 2025
I am excited to be part of a group of member artists taking part in the Society of Wildlife Artists Massingham Heath Project. Launching in May 2025 with the first residency, the project aims to document the changing landscapes and emerging flora and fauna on Massingham Heath through the year. More information can be found on the Society of Wildlife Artists website. Please contact the artist to register interest in any works that are part of this project. More to be added soon.
Life on the Upper Shore | 2024
“These drawings were made whilst watching Ringed Plover as they raise their tiny families on a popular Norfolk beach. Quiet observations from a safe distance well away from nesting areas, a spectator of the fleeting moments of their journey as they grow in size and in courage, and the highs and the lows of watching a struggling species try to make their way in the world alongside us. The chicks, very mobile and much faster than their fragile frame would suggest were a challenge to draw, but perhaps more so, was watching with clenched jaw and gritted teeth as the chicks navigate passing beach goers and an endless stream of beachside bustle. Me, taking frequent pause breaks with my brush as the birds lay low amongst the shingle. Them, waiting for any threats to pass. A soundscape of apprehensive contact calls to signal the coast is clear, broken by the bark of a dog in the heat haze.”
This body of work was exhibited at Mall Galleries, London in 2024 as part of the Society of Wildlife Artists annual exhibition The Natural Eye and was awarded the ‘Conservation through Art’ Award sponsored by BIRDscapes Gallery.
SWLA Wadden Sea Project | 2022
“In 2022 I was lucky enough to be part of a very exciting residency in the Danish Wadden Sea with the Society of Wildlife Artists. A project in collaboration with National Park Vadehavet. I joined the second cohort of artists exploring the landscapes and wildlife that make this place so unique. The Wadden Sea is the largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world. And the sheer vastness of it really does take your breath away. So much so for me, that on more than one occasion, the prospect of trying to capture such an expansive landscape on paper, felt so overwhelming that I had to think smaller, look closer, tune into the tiny, bubbling, breathing things that peppered the muds surface. Only traces of the invisible creatures beneath, boring their bodies into the heart of the system.
One of my standout moments of the residency fell on a very hot day where, in a small, sandy quarry near the varde Å estuary. My eyes were tired from glaring through optics and lured in by the plants teeming with insects, I was excited to spend some time at eye level with closer things. It wasn't long after I settled on a spot that I noticed the comings and goings of a very busy sand wasp. I spent hours there, lost in its movements. It's furious digging. Delicate translocation of tiny boulders. Hesitant to-ing and fro-ing. It's apparent displeasure of my closeness, before returning to its excavations.”
The works made on the residency formed part of an exhibition at Mall Galleries in London as part of the Society of Wildlife Artists annual exhibition The Natural Eye and features in the beautiful book Haunted by the Last Tide published by National Park Vadehavet.
Drawings from live webcams | Lockdown 2020
“During the COVID lockdown in 2020, restrictions meant that drawing in the open air was no longer possible for most. I searched for a new way to draw indoors that replicated the energy of drawing wild animals in real time, and became hooked on drawing from live webcams. I watched intently and with curiosity, many species that were not usual subjects for me in a geographical sense. Intense periods of observing gave me a sense of stability and as the natural world always does - it anchored me.”
Sharpham meadows, Devon | Summer 2020
These drawings were made on location in the meadows surrounding the Sharpham Estate in South Devon, UK in 2020.
“Watching their quickness and the hypnotic rhythm of their rasping legs as they flicker and hiss in the grass. So many of them..all talking to one another without words. A language of their own. Of movement and sound. Some greet one another softly and tentatively, some hide away on red clover heads gone to seed. Drawing form, movement and sound simultaneously to channel 'grasshopperness'. Watching coneheads move up and down stems - hinged legs raised like the mast of a great sailboat, and the meadow grasshopper, vanish in a second, blink and you miss it. Look up from your paper and it's gone again. And so to find a new one. listening to the hypnotic chirping. The rasping of body parts like a tiny comb on parchment paper. My ears are still ringing with its softness.”
Thames Estuary, London | October 2019
These drawings were made on the Thames Estuary at RSPB Rainham Marshes in London, UK in 2019.
“Watching gulls pouring from the sky on an active landfill. Such a crazy mass of moving trucks, tippers and dumpers on a brown maze flecked with our plastic waste like flags in the dirt. Almost apocalyptic swarms of gulls and crows darken the skies above with the top of a distant silo just in view. A freight train carrying yellow, rust-red and tin-grey containers cuts through the landscape, a strange meeting of urban and wild under towering pylons and the leaning silver of the marsh.”
Drawings from The John Busby Seabird Drawing Course, Scotland | June/July 2019
This body of work was created entirely in the field during The John Busby Seabird Drawing Course in 2019 as the recipient of the Greg Poole Bursary. Selected works were exhibited at Mall Galleries, London in 2019 as part of the Society of Wildlife Artists annual exhibition The Natural Eye and were awarded the inaugral Larson Juhl award for drawing and dry media.
Zoo drawings, Paignton Zoo, Devon | 2019
These earlier drawings were made on location at Paignton Zoo in South Devon, UK. A selection of the many studies made here from sustained observations across multiple visits over two years. Primarily ink and graphite drawings which feature primates, rhino and collared peccary amongst other species.