Art in Nature

Posted on August 16, 2019 by Clive Bennett — 2 Comments

Charles F. Tunnicliffe, OBE, RA

Originally posted on March 9, 2019 @ 2:47 pm

Charles F. Tunnicliffe, OBE, RA (1901-1979) was probably the best illustrator and bird portraitist of the last century. His work across a breadth of media – watercolour, pen and ink, woodblock engraving, etching and scraperboard – and across a variety of subject matter, has stood the test of time and is widely collected.

If you grew up in the fifties like me you probably read Ladybird nature books and collected Brooke Bond tea cards – all illustrated by Tunnicliffe. You might even have read the Puffin edition of Henry Williamson’s Tarka the Otter, with its cover and beautiful illustrations also by Tunnicliffe.

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Posted on August 15, 2019August 16, 2019 by Clive Bennett — 7 Comments

A Deceit of Lapwing

Originally posted on March 9, 2019 @ 2:47 pm

Suddenly! Some chance movement has been noticed by the nearest Lapwing, and away they go at once as if with the same wings, sweeping overhead, then to the right, then to the left, and then back again, a ‘flickering chequerboard’. Wee-ah-wee! The notes immediately repeated by another - Wee-ah-wee! Finally they settle again ...

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Posted on August 14, 2019August 16, 2019 by Clive Bennett — 5 Comments

Songs of Wild Birds

Originally posted on March 9, 2019 @ 2:47 pm

How better to start this post than with a quote from the writings of Richard Jefferies:

The fervour of the sunbeams descending in a tidal flood rings on the strung harp of earth. It is this exquisite undertone, heard and yet unheard, which brings the mind into sweet accordance with the wonderful instrument of nature.—' The Life of the Fields': The Pageant of Summer.

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Posted on August 13, 2019August 15, 2019 by Clive Bennett — 2 Comments

Winifred Marie Louise Austen

Originally posted on March 6, 2019 @ 10:05 pm

Winifred Maria Louise Austen (1876 - 1964) - was an English illustrator, painter, etcher and aquatint engraver. She was widely admired and collected; even the naturalist Sir Peter Scott – himself so able a wildlife artist – said Austen was, ‘certainly the best bird-etcher of this (last) century’.

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Posted on August 13, 2019August 15, 2019 by Clive Bennett — 6 Comments

Wagtail All

Originally posted on March 9, 2019 @ 2:47 pm

Walking upstream from the bridge the stream ceases to be tidal, and turns into a lovely clear running stream with a gravel bed. A flash of yellow; a beautiful male Grey Wagtail bounds away to alight on a boulder under the bank, the reflection of its brilliant yellow plumage in the pool beneath more evident than the bird itself. Another flies to join it at the waters edge - a female - less yellow and without the black bib - their pendulum swings of the tail in ceaseless unison ...

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Posted on August 13, 2019 by Clive Bennett — 7 Comments

A Carousel of Birds

Originally posted on March 6, 2019 @ 10:05 pm

A Carousel of Birds ...

My chief delight is in nature, and when I look at a picture it is to find something about nature in it, especially some expression of the feeling produced in us by nature, which is, to me, the most important thing in life ... Adapted from W H Hudson - 'Afoot in England’ - 1909

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Posted on August 13, 2019August 15, 2019 by Clive Bennett — 3 Comments

David Morrison Reid-Henry

Originally posted on March 6, 2019 @ 10:05 pm

David Morrison Reid-Henry (1919 – 1977) - This post is one of a series of short biographies about artists and writers inspired by Nature and the Countryside and whose works have fostered my own love of the Countryside - especially Birds.

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Posted on August 13, 2019 by Clive Bennett — 5 Comments

Murder, Mischief and Murmurations

Originally posted on March 6, 2019 @ 10:05 pm

I paused for a moment to look out over the marshy fields - a dull flat grey-green in the late autumn evening; almost night. The sun had set and white trails of mist followed the course of the river. A few Magpie were chakking noisily in some willow scrub. Starkly black and white. I counted - one for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four a boy - a few more flew in - eight for a wish, nine for a kiss ... and then more - twenty, thirty, forty - from all directions. One hundred, two hundred, I lost count; now too dark to see ...

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Posted on August 13, 2019 by Clive Bennett — 9 Comments

Artists Inspired by Nature – Leo Paul Robert

Originally posted on March 6, 2019 @ 10:05 pm

Leo Paul Robert (1851-1923) - was the most highly regarded Swiss ornithological artist at the turn of the century. But he only established a reputation as a landscape painter and painter of birds later in his career.

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Posted on August 8, 2019August 13, 2019 by Clive Bennett — 1 Comment

The Art of the Postcard

Originally posted on March 9, 2019 @ 2:47 pm

The Art of the Postcard .....

The art card is probably the most important category in antique postcards. Think of these cards as 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" original high quality prints, which they are, instead of as postcards. Artists could make extra income by selling postcard prints of their work. This booming market drew the very best artists, creating a wealth of quality material unmatched in the art world.

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Charles F. Tunnicliffe, OBE, RA

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Nature Notes

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