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Happy New Year, my friends! Wishing you a peaceful

Happy New Year, my friends!
Wishing you a peaceful 2022 full of hope & joy.
It felt like a good time to share my 'Sleeping Fox', as a reminder to ease into the new year, and taking our time, resting when we need, instead of fighting the natural urge - especially throughout winter x

Red Foxes (vulpes vulpes) tend to be nocturnal, hunting and foraging at night in the wild. For this reason, they usually sleep for between 8-10 daylight hours per day. I was inspired to paint this piece from the various places I lived in London, where it’s a common and wonderful sight to see a fox or two curled up snugly in a garden during the day. Interestingly, non-urban foxes who live in packs, tend to hunt during the day instead. There’s something about watching animals, especially wild animals sleep that is deeply calming and often feels like being honoured with a lesson to take things at your own pace, resting when you need.

#foxes #redfox #sleepingfox #illustrationartists #watercolour #penandinkdrawing #penandwash #wildlifeart #wildanimals #foxpainting #watercolor

✨Pocket-sized Framed Prints, perfect for last mi

✨Pocket-sized Framed Prints, perfect for last minute gifts - Plus Get 20% OFF Everything. Final Xmas order date - Tues 21st ✨

Introducing my painting of the incredible European

Introducing my painting of the incredible European Badger (Meles meles), now available as a print from my webshop. Link in bio. Also get 20% off yr order in my Starlight Sale.

I originally painted this Badger for my Dad to go with the Badger watching experience I was lucky enough to get us for his birthday thanks to @hertswildlifetrust . As we waited silently at dusk for them to appear, the anticipation of whether we’d be lucky enough to see them – especially as it had been raining – made it all the more awe-inspiring when one by one they started to appear. I was astonished at how unique they all not only looked compared with one another but also in their behaviour.

Seeing wild Badgers up close was a surreal experience and just mind-boggling that these beautiful, large, robust but peaceful creatures live just below the ground and yet we rarely see them.

They are members of the mustelidae (Weasel) family, and are the largest land predators in the UK, feeding on small mammals (including rabbits and hedgehogs), amphibians, birds eggs, invertebrates, plants and bulbs. They can apparently eat around 100 Earthworms per night. European Badgers live on average for around 8 years in the wild (20 in captivity) and live in underground dens called setts. You can tell if a badger sett is in use if the entrances are generally tidy, with a small pile of dried grass and leaves outside, which is the bedding they change regularly.

Setts are usually inhabited by a group of around 10 or more Badgers, known as a clan.

#badger #badgerprint #wildlifeart #wildlifelovers #illustrationartists #wildlife #penandink #watercolourpainting #watercolour

Hello friends! To celebrate the lead-up to Winter

Hello friends! To celebrate the lead-up to Winter Solstice & Christmas celebrations, please enjoy 20% off your entire order from my shop.

Your discount will be added automatically at checkout. The sale includes all framed & unframed prints, notebooks, Christmas Cards & blank greetings cards. Including my new paintings below of The European Hare, European Badger and Sleeping Fox...EVERYTHING, I Said!

As the darkest day of the year approaches on Tuesday 21st of December, it's a hopeful time when soon the longer daylight hours will begin their return. It's also the time to savour the darker skies and steel-sharp stars shining at their brightest, when the skies are clear.

x

#christmascards #ecofriendlyproducts #wildlifeart #wildanimals #wildlifelovers #illustrationartists #hare #fox #badger #christmaspresents

🦌 Reindeer cards are back in stock! 🦌 Remem

🦌 Reindeer cards are back in stock! 🦌

Remember you can still use code: CARDS15 to get 15% OFF all multipacks of my 100% recycled greetings cards.

All packaging is compostable or recyclable.

I will also be having a Flash Sale this weekend, so keep an eye out for that...

#christmascards #ecofriendly #reindeer #recycled #recycledart #ecofriendlyproducts

Spindleberries! I love these hedgerow trees. In Au

Spindleberries! I love these hedgerow trees. In Autumn their leaves are exceptionally beautiful colours, but once fallen, the tree remains covered in these vivid pink unusually shaped fruits with tropical orange seeds popping out.

Their latin name is Eunonymus europaea - Eunonyme Goddess of Fury 👺 ! The berries and even sawdust is toxic to humans (which could explain the namesake) but are eaten and their seeds distributed by many birds, most prolifically by the robin.

Orders on their way! A Huge 🌿THANKYOU🌿 to a

Orders on their way!
A Huge 🌿THANKYOU🌿 to all who ordered my 100% Recycled Christmas card multipacks so far! Don't forget you can still get 15% off these with code: CARDS15 at checkout 😌

#christmascards #sale #ecofriendly

15% OFF Christmas Card packs with CODE: CARDS15 🙂

15% OFF Christmas Card packs with CODE: CARDS15 🙂
Last nights Frost full moon 🌝 & the darker evenings mark the distinct pivot into Winter for me, and with it, the urge to get things in order before hibernation.

In preparation for Winter celebrations, I'm offering 15% Off ALL 100% Recycled Xmas Card multi packs.

Simply use code: CARDS15 at checkout on any of my 100% recycled Christmas card collections for a limited time. All card packs come protected in 100% compostable and recyclable packaging.

Link in Bio x

Music: Soft Talk by Sun Ra.

#christmascards #wildanimals #dormouse #ecofriendly #wildlifeart #watercolour #penandink #illustrationartists #watercolourpainting #holidayseason #christmas

The Great Crested Newt (Triturus cristatus) 🔥 F

The Great Crested Newt (Triturus cristatus) 🔥
For me, Newts have always been the most exciting creatures to find in the pond, their mystique, colourful bellies, wiggly swimming style - everything about them is sublime. This is an ink, watercolour and acrylic painting I made in August - Prints are available from my website now.
‘There, the creature concealed its true identity. From above it was as dark as the shadows that had concealed it, but its undersides were a dazzlingly flamboyant sunset orange flecked with black marks. Here was the salamander of myth, the fire creature that so fascinated Aristotle, which grew new limbs and could regenerate itself from a kind of magic that dated back to its origins in the Jurassic era more than 160m years ago. The dorsal line along its spine was where its dragon crest would form for the underwater breeding drama next spring.

For now, the newt regarded being in the world through trichromic colour and ultraviolet – shortsighted in air, longsighted in water through low frequency sound detected by its forelegs and smell-taste organs in its nose and sides of its mouth. Its gaze was enigmatic, filled perhaps with too much knowing.’
Wonderful words by Dr. Paul Evans, nature writer.

#newts #wildlife #wildlifepaintings #wildlifeartists #wildlifeconservation #wildlifeaddicts #greatcrestednewts #watercolour #watercolor

Little beauty! #toads #wildlife

Little beauty!
#toads #wildlife

Honoured as always to be sharing the shelves at th

Honoured as always to be sharing the shelves at the glorious @bermondseyfayre with such talented artists and makers. If you're around Bermondsey, go check them out!

Newt in progress...Fire wash. #greatcrestednewt #

Newt in progress...Fire wash.

#greatcrestednewt #illustrationartists #watercolour #wildlifeart #pond #pondlife

New(t) work in progress.. #greatcrestednewt #newt

New(t) work in progress..

#greatcrestednewt #newts #illustrationartists #wildlifeart #pond #pondlife #illustrator #watercolour #drawing

Chicken and potatoes. #chickensofinstagram #veget

Chicken and potatoes.

#chickensofinstagram #vegetablegarden

Work in progress...Quick red fox ink painting for

Work in progress...Quick red fox ink painting for a commissioned greetings card line.

#fox #illustration #inkdrawing #redfox #wildlifeart #wildlife

100% recycled Mothers Day cards! Say it with a Slo

100% recycled Mothers Day cards!
Say it with a Sloth Bear & cubs! on Sunday 14th of March.
Free UK delivery. AND For 10% off all prints, add
MUMDAY10 at checkout.

Optional direct send from the For Feathers & Tails HQ, with a personalised message from yourself. Simply enter your message in the 'order notes' section at checkout x

#slothbear #mothersday #mothersdaygift #mothersdaycard #ecofriendly #cuteslothbear #bearcubs #wildlifeillustration #wildlifeart #watercolour #watercolourpainting #penandink

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