Category Archives: Birds

Recent Visitors

Posted on May 16, 2013 by hamer the framer

This comma butterfly suddenly appeared in my workshop just as the sun returned and the temperature rose. I didn’t see it come in, maybe it hatched indoors, and I didn’t see it leave either.

Chequers

Posted on April 29, 2013 by hamer the framer

Suddenly last weekend there was unexpected sunshine. I fancied the coast, Sue wanted to go west, we wasted time weighing pros and cons and set out later than we should have. We finally settled on the Chilterns, Sue’s homeland and … Read more…

Conference Of The Birds

Posted on April 16, 2013 by hamer the framer

David Rees Davies brought us a few of his joyful paintings of birds. These are the first arrivals and hopefully more will follow soon, maybe a spring migration. He sent some words too.

Port Meadow

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Andrew Walton

Dear Chris, As mentioned here are a couple or so photos and two sketchbook pages of bird images. I could write for a thousand pages about Port Meadow. I’ve been there ever since I was six years old. It floods … Read more…

Bewick’s Nature Print

Posted on January 21, 2013 by hamer the framer

The Hedge Warbler or Dunnock Printed from the boxwood block engraved by Thomas Bewick for his History of British Birds, 1797

Time Mayfly

Posted on December 21, 2012 by hamer the framer

Fanny Shorter was asked to design the packaging for a new 24 hour watch by Mr Jones. She used it as an opportunity to illustrate the life-cycle of the mayfly, which as an adult lives for just one day.

Corr Blimey!

Posted on November 6, 2012 by hamer the framer

I love this picture. It reminds me of a ‘fayr feeld ful of folk’ from Piers Plowman. Christopher Corr made it for a client from London now living in Washington. The brief was to paint the view from Parliament Hill … Read more…

Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken

Posted on July 16, 2012 by hamer the framer

Marc the electrician came to see us, to fix the lighting and to bring us these delicious eggs from his garden in Thornton Heath where he keeps Cotswold Legbars, French Copper Neck Marans, a large speckled hen and a black … Read more…

Open Studio

Posted on June 14, 2012 by hamer the framer

This is Fanny Shorter‘s screenprint Common Wood Pigeon (Columba Palumbus). All Fanny’s birds are depicted life size. See flocks of them this weekend at her open studio at Cockpit Arts, Cockpit Yard, Holborn. More details here.

Hatfield Forest & Hatfield Broad Oak

Posted on May 26, 2012 by hamer the framer

This is one of my favourite trees, an ancient Hornbeam pollard at Bush End Plain, an area of wood pasture in Hatfield Forest. This place has been grazed by cattle and sheep for at least 1000 years, and these trees … Read more…

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