Artist Code: 1106. Completed July 2011. Original SOLD. Water colour on Aquarelle Arches 100% hot pressed cotton rag paper. Unframed size 12” x 16”. Framed size 22” x 18”
This painting was selected for the National Exhibition of Wildlife Art (NEWA 2012). Sold at the Spring Exhibition, Natural World Art Group (NWAG), Banham Zoo, April 2013.
Featured on the Publicity Poster for the Association of Animal Artists’ Exhibition, at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Martin Mere, Martin Mere Wetland Centre, Burscough, Lancashire L40 0TA, from 3 December 2013 to 23 February 2014.
Great Crested Grebes, Podiceps cristatus, amongst Amphibious bistort, Polygonum amphibium.
Poem
Pearly King and Queen
With swirling rhythm, flicking heads
They court and dance on bistort beds
As bubbles spray and sprinkle pearls
Golden neck plumes shine in whorls
Soon the babes on backs will ride
Stripey fluff-balls, sunnyside!