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I chose a waxwing as my latest card design to accompany my 'A is for Apples' Fox's Alphabet as they're apparently partial to apples and pears in the late autumn.
It was such a privilege to work on this 'Breaking News' story, introducing visitors to highlights from Kew's world leading State of the World's Plants and Fungi report.
For this week's bird doodle I was still preoccupied with waxwings, and whilst it's much too early to hear a nightingale heralding the spring, I sketched one of these in homage to all of our heroic key workers in the midst of the pandemic.
I thoroughly enjoyed working on Travel the World at Kew last summer, a mid-pandemic celebration of the fact that, in spite of travel being restricted and most holidays being cancelled, you can still explore the world on an imaginative globe-trotting experience through Kew's richly diverse botanical collections.
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A blue ink study of the dyfi valley otters, printed on perlino cotton in dinky a7 size.
A handmade, watercolour chaffinch, made to fly through a loved one's letterbox. The moving wing allows you to write an additional hidden message for your recipient, with the option for this to be added to your order in matching calligrapher's dip pen.
The ornate spiny lobster (Panulirus ornatus), illustrated in watercolour and ink for a sustainable fisheries project securing sustainable livlihoods in Madagascar.
You can read all about this fantastic environmental project in my blog.
Art print dimensions: 210 x 297 mm.
The following is an extract from a a bi-weekly newsletter that I wrote for a Values Based Financial Advisor in January 2021.