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This was an experiment to see what I could come up with from a single leaf shape and a single photograph. The maple leaf was drawn as a vector shape in Illustrator and the photograph was a close-up of

An illustration of a barred owlet briefly hanging upside down having just snatched a grasshopper on a twig - as seen in my garden recently

A collage-illustration of a robin that happens to look quite Christmassy

A digital collage of leaves in the style of a gelliplate print

My illustration of a family of hoopoes in our garden with paddy-fields and sugar-palm trees beyond

My illustration of a tiny wren trying to feed an enormous cuckoo chick

The only time I have seen spotted owlets in our garden was during an eruption of flying termites. This usually happens just after the first rain of the rainy season. It is spectacular with thousands of

My illustration of a magpie robin with the discarded tail of a gecko

An illustration of the large-tailed nightjar which I am delighted to have sharing my garden.

I have always been inspired by these beasts. Great hulking, hairy tanks of muscle with solid curving horns and a willingness to butt heads at full sprinting speed. They are perhaps not as large as they

I am not sure why I thought it would be fun to illustrate a bait ball. Putting together all those fish made my head hurt! Apart from that I did enjoy putting all the separate bits and animals into a

A self-portrait of what occupies my mind whilst gardening. The iconic hooded cobra is in our genes. Children may need to be taught how to react on meeting one or to be aware of the risk of encounters,

My illustration of a puffin with its surprising catch!

Autumn and robins are two of the things I miss from my native England. I haven't lived there for over twenty-five years. We have our own very different seasons here in Thailand to both test and treat us

Wondering what comments to add to this illustration I started questioning whether my assumption that everybody knows the tortoise and hare fable is actually true. Maybe everybody does but with people from

Whenever I see pictures of the bull running festival in Pamplona in Spain it always strikes me how terrifying it must be for the animals surrounded by a crowd of noisy, excited people deliberately provoking

This is probably the moment that nature lost a fan. And I suspect the boy might grow up to become a pest controller. I was fortunate enough to never experience such trauma at the

Artwork of thermalling storks using a photograph of a weathered old metal fence

Shags and their brother cormorants are great subjects for my kind of artwork with their upright stance and long necks. Their silhouettes are distinctive and blend into the background easily when sitting

A lone sealion, watchful as it emerges onto a beach, pausing to check for danger before entering a world where it lumbers rather than glides. To me, it looks like a clean place to live, with bright