Piggy Wink
This young pig has a very knowing look in their eye. It’s probably because they knew that it was almost feeding time (seee Squeee!). Piggy Wink, Indian ink on paper, approx A4. Mounted to 12×16″ £85
Category: Animals
Squeee!
The origins of this drawing and the photograph it was based on are quite involved and not very interesting, so let’s just say that I had this photograph, of piglets crowding to the newly-filled trough at Bucklebury Farm Park in Berkshire, and I thought that…
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SOLENT: From Both Sides Now
Group exhibitionRyde, Isle of Wight, 3-18 August 2024 Artikinesis (Adeliza Mole, Rosemary Lawrey and Amanda Bates) are exhibiting SOLENT: FROM BOTH SIDES NOW at The Depozitory, 23 Nelson Street, Ryde PO33 2EZOpen every day 03 to 18 August 2024Tue – Wed 11am – 8pmThu –…
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Queen Bee
It’s always rather sad to discover a dead creature. This bee, which looks like a buff-tailed bumblebee queen, expired in our house and when I found it, I decided to draw it. I used a magnifying lamp, but very little, if any part, of my…
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Harrowing – SOLD
When I visited the Weald and Downland Living Museum in Sussex last year, I was keen to see the heavy horses at work. I was in luck: a team of three Percherons were pulling a harrow at the far side of the site. There was…
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Brewer’s Dray
When I went to Devizes to deliver my work to the White Chalk Gallery (Open Exhibition) I happened to be in the car park behind the Three Crowns, when Wadworth, a local brewery, were delivering their beer. This was only noteworthy because they were using…
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Donkey Throng – SOLD
I went out for a walk to visit a mermaid and came across a field full of mediterranean miniature donkeys. The mermaid was a carving on the door-surround of the tiny Norman church of St. Swithun’s in Nately Scures, near Hook in Hampshire. She’d lost…
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