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Canada Geese Series
Branta Canadensis.
Aquatint Etching
Edition of 50
29 x 42 cm unframed
£230 unframed
Branta canadensis.: Branta was a Latinised form of Old Norse Brandgás, "burnt (black) goose" and the specific epithet canadensis is a New Latin word meaning "from Canada". According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first citation for the 'Canada goose' dates back to 1772.
The Canada goose is our largest goose and maybe our most familiar in the UK. They are a common bird across most of the country, nesting on park lakes, flooded gravel pits and reservoirs. Canada geese are not native to this country, having been introduced from North America about 300 years ago. They were first introduced to the UK in St. James's Park, London, in the 17th century. After the Second World War, they spread across the UK, becoming pests in some areas because they congregate in large numbers and can cause damage. Today, the population numbers 62,000 breeding pairs.
Canada geese are highly intelligent birds that learn quickly and adjust to what they have learned. This has been linked to the increasing frequency and number with which they are turning up in urban and suburban areas. The abundance of food – human food scraps and public feeding in well-maintained parks, – and relative safety of towns and cities offers distinct advantages. In the UK Canada goose populations are, for the most part, sedentary (they do not migrate) and as such the increased temperature in urban areas offers further advantages to rural living.
Edition of 50
29 x 42 cm unframed
£230 unframed
Branta canadensis.: Branta was a Latinised form of Old Norse Brandgás, "burnt (black) goose" and the specific epithet canadensis is a New Latin word meaning "from Canada". According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first citation for the 'Canada goose' dates back to 1772.
The Canada goose is our largest goose and maybe our most familiar in the UK. They are a common bird across most of the country, nesting on park lakes, flooded gravel pits and reservoirs. Canada geese are not native to this country, having been introduced from North America about 300 years ago. They were first introduced to the UK in St. James's Park, London, in the 17th century. After the Second World War, they spread across the UK, becoming pests in some areas because they congregate in large numbers and can cause damage. Today, the population numbers 62,000 breeding pairs.
Canada geese are highly intelligent birds that learn quickly and adjust to what they have learned. This has been linked to the increasing frequency and number with which they are turning up in urban and suburban areas. The abundance of food – human food scraps and public feeding in well-maintained parks, – and relative safety of towns and cities offers distinct advantages. In the UK Canada goose populations are, for the most part, sedentary (they do not migrate) and as such the increased temperature in urban areas offers further advantages to rural living.
Take off
Aquatint Etching
Edition of 50
unframed 29 x 42 cm
£260 unframed
Prior to flight the head-tossing and low gutteral vocalizations are the most obvious behavior sequences by a Canada Goose. At the moment of takeoff the low grunting vocalizations change to a loud honking. When the wings are unfolded, the band of white formed by the upper tail coverts is strikingly displayed and contrasts strongly with
the black tail feathers.
Canada geese usually fly in a V-shaped formation, with one bird in the lead, the others trailing behind in two diverging lines. The V-shape makes the flock more efficient, with vortices of air created by each goose’s flapping giving some lift to the birds behind it. It is also easier for the geese to maintain visual contact with each other and communicate, which helps navigation and flock cohesion.
Edition of 50
unframed 29 x 42 cm
£260 unframed
Prior to flight the head-tossing and low gutteral vocalizations are the most obvious behavior sequences by a Canada Goose. At the moment of takeoff the low grunting vocalizations change to a loud honking. When the wings are unfolded, the band of white formed by the upper tail coverts is strikingly displayed and contrasts strongly with
the black tail feathers.
Canada geese usually fly in a V-shaped formation, with one bird in the lead, the others trailing behind in two diverging lines. The V-shape makes the flock more efficient, with vortices of air created by each goose’s flapping giving some lift to the birds behind it. It is also easier for the geese to maintain visual contact with each other and communicate, which helps navigation and flock cohesion.
Le Flaneur
Aquatint Etching
29 x 42 cm unframed
£230 unframed
Le flâneur - the crowd is his element, as the air is that of birds and water of fishes. His passion and his profession are to become one flesh with the crowd. For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define.
(C.Baudelaire, Paris 1860's)
29 x 42 cm unframed
£230 unframed
Le flâneur - the crowd is his element, as the air is that of birds and water of fishes. His passion and his profession are to become one flesh with the crowd. For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define.
(C.Baudelaire, Paris 1860's)
Winter chill II
Plate size: 22.2cm x 16.2cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 50
Year completed: 2020
£230 unframed
£280 framed
The long flight home
Aquatint Etching
(41 1/2cm x 69 1/2 cm)
Framed £230
Unframed £180
Edition of 50 on Zerkall paper
Numbered, titled, signed in pencil and embossed initials stamp
Canada Geese (Branta canadensis) raise their young near water, where the goslings can feed and if necessary dive or swim away to escape predators. In late summer the adults temporarily become flightless for several weeks as they molt their wing feathers. Once the young have learned to fly, and the parents have regained their flight, the whole family will take off from their nesting grounds to find more productive feeding areas
(41 1/2cm x 69 1/2 cm)
Framed £230
Unframed £180
Edition of 50 on Zerkall paper
Numbered, titled, signed in pencil and embossed initials stamp
Canada Geese (Branta canadensis) raise their young near water, where the goslings can feed and if necessary dive or swim away to escape predators. In late summer the adults temporarily become flightless for several weeks as they molt their wing feathers. Once the young have learned to fly, and the parents have regained their flight, the whole family will take off from their nesting grounds to find more productive feeding areas
Homage to Old Father Thames
Aquatint Etching
(46 x 68 cm)
edition size 50
£280 unframed
£340 framed
Edition of 50
Old Father Thames advanced his reverend head;
His tresses dropp'd with dews, and o'er the stream
His shining horns diffused a golden gleam:
Grav'd on his arm appear'd the moon that guides
His swelling waters and alternate tides:
The figur'd streams in waves of silver roll'd,
And on her banks Augusta rose in gold.
Alexander Pope's 1713 poem Windsor Forest
(Augusta is an ancient name for London)
Homage to Old Father Thames II
Aquatint Etching
(46 x 68 cm)
edition size 50
£190 unframed
£240 framed
Edition of 60
Old Father Thames advanced his reverend head;
His tresses dropp'd with dews, and o'er the stream
His shining horns diffused a golden gleam:
Grav'd on his arm appear'd the moon that guides
His swelling waters and alternate tides:
The figur'd streams in waves of silver roll'd,
And on her banks Augusta rose in gold.
Alexander Pope's 1713 poem Windsor Forest
(Augusta is an ancient name for London)
Little Bird Series
This Longing
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Plate size: 16.2cm x 12.3cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Plate size: 16.2cm x 12.3cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Edition size: 80
£120 unframed
£170 framed
Plate size: 16.2cm x 12.3cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Plate size: 16.2cm x 12.3cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Edition size: 80
£120 unframed
£170 framed
Little bird
Plate size: 16.2cm x 12.3cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 80
£120 unframed
£170 framed
Autumn I
Aquatint etching with Chine Collé
Unframed 29 x 42cm £120
Unframed 29 x 42cm £120
Autumn II
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Chine-collé
Plate size: 16.2cm x 12.3cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Plate size: 16.2cm x 12.3cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Edition size: 80
£120 unframed
£170 framed
Chine-collé
Plate size: 16.2cm x 12.3cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Plate size: 16.2cm x 12.3cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Edition size: 80
£120 unframed
£170 framed
Momentum
Plate size: 30cm x 12.5cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 40
£130 unframed
Momentum II
Plate size: 30cm x 12.5cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 40
£130 unframed
The Dance
Plate size: 22.2cm x 16.2cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 50
£180 unframed
The Dance II
Plate size: 22.2cm x 16.2cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 50
£180 unframed
Impact II
Plate size: 22.3cm x 16.3cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching & Watercolour
Edition size: 50
£180 unframed
The pleading
Plate size: 22.3cm x 16.3cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 50
£160 unframed
Impact
Plate size: 22.3cm x 16.3cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 50
£180 unframed
Orientation at dawn
Plate size: 30cm x 9.2cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 100
£75 unframed
Mid-day orientation
Plate size: 30cm x 9.2cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 100
£75 unframed
Orientation at dusk
Plate size: 30cm x 9.2cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 100
£75 unframed
Orientation
Plate size: 30cm x 9.2cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 100
£75 unframed
Barnacle Geese, Winter Solstice, Thames Barrier, London
Aquatint etch with spit-bite
Unframed 48x48cm
Framed 50x50cm
Framed £340
Unframed £290
The myth explained.
Barnacle Geese, Winter Solstice, 2020, Thames Barrier, London.
In the weeks leading up to the New Year, on my walk to the studio, I quite often saw these Barnacle geese ( Branta leucopsis) flying fast and low up the river Thames. They migrate here from Greenland and Svalbard, Norway each winter.
It was once thought that barnacle geese hatched out of goose barnacles attached to ships at sea - their shells washing up on the west coast of Scotland in the autumn. This belief grew because goose barnacles have black-and-white stripes (like the geese) and the nests of barnacle geese were never seen as they lay their nests high up on mountain cliffs. As a result, people even considered the barnacle goose acceptable to eat on Fridays and during Lent, despite the Church's ban on eating meat at these times, because it was not 'born of the flesh'. The barnacle myth can be dated back to at least the 12th century.
Unframed 48x48cm
Framed 50x50cm
Framed £340
Unframed £290
The myth explained.
Barnacle Geese, Winter Solstice, 2020, Thames Barrier, London.
In the weeks leading up to the New Year, on my walk to the studio, I quite often saw these Barnacle geese ( Branta leucopsis) flying fast and low up the river Thames. They migrate here from Greenland and Svalbard, Norway each winter.
It was once thought that barnacle geese hatched out of goose barnacles attached to ships at sea - their shells washing up on the west coast of Scotland in the autumn. This belief grew because goose barnacles have black-and-white stripes (like the geese) and the nests of barnacle geese were never seen as they lay their nests high up on mountain cliffs. As a result, people even considered the barnacle goose acceptable to eat on Fridays and during Lent, despite the Church's ban on eating meat at these times, because it was not 'born of the flesh'. The barnacle myth can be dated back to at least the 12th century.
Spring Dance
Aquatint etching
Unframed 48x48cm
Framed 50x50cm
Unframed £285
Framed £335
Unframed 48x48cm
Framed 50x50cm
Unframed £285
Framed £335
Flight of the Bar-tailed godwit
Flight of the Bar-tailed Godwit
Spit-bite Aquatint Etching on Zerkil paper
Edition of 60
Unframed 38x66cm
Framed 40x68cm
Unframed £285
Framed £340
The Bar-tailed godwit winters in the UK in their thousands. It is a large, tall wader that breeds in Arctic Scandinavia and Siberia, and migrates here in the thousands, either for the whole winter or en route to wintering grounds further south. Large numbers can be spotted in estuaries such as the Thames, Dee, Humber and Wash.
In New Zealand the Bar-tailed Godwit, Limosa Lapponica (Kuaka in Maori) perform the longest nonstop flights of any non-seabird, and, unlike a seabird, there is no chance of an inflight snack. These birds make the 1200km/7500miles nonstop flight from New Zealand to Alaska each year to reach their breeding grounds. Flying continuously (not even gliding) over the ocean at an average speed of 80km/h, the journey takes six to eight days. For Maori they were birds of mystery, (‘Kua kite te kohanga kuaka? - Who has seen the nest of the kuaka?’) and were believed to accompany spirits of the departed.
Spit-bite Aquatint Etching on Zerkil paper
Edition of 60
Unframed 38x66cm
Framed 40x68cm
Unframed £285
Framed £340
The Bar-tailed godwit winters in the UK in their thousands. It is a large, tall wader that breeds in Arctic Scandinavia and Siberia, and migrates here in the thousands, either for the whole winter or en route to wintering grounds further south. Large numbers can be spotted in estuaries such as the Thames, Dee, Humber and Wash.
In New Zealand the Bar-tailed Godwit, Limosa Lapponica (Kuaka in Maori) perform the longest nonstop flights of any non-seabird, and, unlike a seabird, there is no chance of an inflight snack. These birds make the 1200km/7500miles nonstop flight from New Zealand to Alaska each year to reach their breeding grounds. Flying continuously (not even gliding) over the ocean at an average speed of 80km/h, the journey takes six to eight days. For Maori they were birds of mystery, (‘Kua kite te kohanga kuaka? - Who has seen the nest of the kuaka?’) and were believed to accompany spirits of the departed.
Last light
Plate size: 22.3cm x 16.2cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 50
Year completed: 2020
£160 unframed
Royal Albatross I
Plate size: 25cm x 20cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 50
Year completed: 2019
£230 unframed
Royal Albatross II
Plate size: 25cm x 20cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 50
Year completed: 2019
£230 unframed
Royal Swan I
Plate size: 30cm x 25cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 50
£140 unframed
Royal Swan II
Plate size: 30cm x 25cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 50
£135 unframed
Kea-unique monoprint
Plate size: 30cm x 25cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 50
Year completed: 2019
£125 unframed
Kea
Plate size: 30cm x 25cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching Chine-colle
Edition size: 50
Year completed: 2019
£125 unframed
Kotoku (White Heron )
Night watch
Plate size: 22.2cm x 16.2cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 50
Year completed: 2019
£150 unframed
The white heron or kotuku is well-loved by the New Zealand people, but it is rarely seen except by those who specifically seek it out. Its sole New Zealand breeding site near Okarito Lagoon in Westland is well-known and well-protected, but elsewhere it is 'He kotuku rerenga tahi' or the bird of single flight, implying something seen perhaps once in a lifetime. When seen in close proximity it is a magnificent bird, with its large size and clean white plumage.
Last of the siege
Plate size: 22.2cm x 16.2cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Edition size: 50
Year completed: 2019
£150 unframed
The Kotoku (White Heron) use the area on the West Coast, of the South Island of New Zealand, along the banks of the Waitangiroto River for breeding so are seen in the reserve over the spring and summer months. Over autumn and winter they disperse widely throughout New Zealand and are generally seen as a solitary bird. The population of Kotoku in New Zealand is around 150 and to see one of these birds is a rare and special sight. To visit their breeding ground is truly unique experience.
The collective noun for a group of Kotoku is called a seige.
Tranquility
Plate size: 16cm x 12cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching Edition size: 50
Year completed: 2017
£95 unframed
Stillness
Plate size: 25cm x 13cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching Edition size: 50
£150 unframed
In the past due to its rarity in New Zealand and its beautiful plumage, the kōtuku was highly valued by Māori and European settlers for its ornamental feathers. The species was almost exterminated to satisfy the demand after its only breeding site on the Waitangiroto River was discovered in 1865.
By 1941 there were only four nests. At this time, the Waitangiroto site was declared a reserve and wildlife refuge and patrolled at breeding time. The managed access helps ensure the birds have every opportunity to nest undisturbed. The numbers have now stabilised with a permanent population of around 100 to 120 birds.
Brilliant white finery
Plate size: 24.6cm x 19.5cm
Paper size: 42cm x 29cm
Medium: Aquatint Etching Edition size: 50
£150 unframed
As the Kotoku return to the breeding ground in spring (September in New Zealand) from their various wintering spots, they transform into their spectacular breeding plumage. Long, lacy, elegant plumes are grown from their back which they display like peacocks. The beak changes colour from yellow to black and around the eyes a bright emerald/turquoise blue colour develops. Male and female birds look the same, both having plumage.
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