* Artist in Residence
Couleur Decor Society
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With a French Gallery and
Society, Couleur Decor,
http://www.couleur-decor.org, I was immersed within Pyrenean
landscape, the Fauves legacy and the Catalan culture.
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It has been rewarding to
do a residency with
WDCS in the Moray
Firth. Whales and Dolphins have always filled me with a sense of wonder
as the creatures who kept the banana boat company when I was evacuated,
during the Biafran War, to Liverpool.
Situated in Scotland, I
was working amongst dedicated staff and in an interesting environment.
During my residence I developed a large study of the cetaceans that are
living along the coastline. This work is now being reproduced for their
store to raise funds.

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* Studies of Parrots found at Tropical Birdland, 2008
Military Macaws set in
the wooded ravines of the Barranca de Cobre, Sierra Madre Occidental, South
America.
Blue and Gold Macaws in the
Maurita flexuosa palm
Umbrella Cockatoos

Ring Necked Parakeets in Tamarisk shurbs,
Himalayas
contact me for
availability of the original canvases or as prints in a limited edition
of 50.
Many
thanks to the following;
Craig Brough, Information Services Librarian Library, Art & Archives Royal
Botanic Kew Gardens.
Tropical Birdland, Lindridge lane, Desford, Leicester, LE9 9GN tel. 01455
824603
www.tropicalbirdland.com
Parrots of the World J. M. Forshaw, T.F.H.Publications (info on habitat)
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* Pyrenees
2008
These mountains continue to enthrall and
the donkey project continues with 2 weeks spent on location making
studies of the one found at the little exquisite village of Evol. This rapidly disappearing animal could again become
economical to use them instead of tractors especially on the steep
slopes of this mountainous region.
I have felt a strong
similarity between these mountains and the Hindu Kush and Himalaya
Mountains of my childhood.






The oil on canvas studies are available from
Gallerie Couleur Decor, 5 Boulevard Clemenceau 66820, Vernet les Bains,
France
contact@couleur-decor.org
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