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Tonal study of pear blossom showing flowers and leaves, sketchbook piece.

Three pear blossom flowers. Pencil botanical illustration.

Study of Pear leaves and flower Pyrus communis, cut to white.

Pear fruit with leaves shows one pear and sketched leaves behind.  Pencil.

Egyptian Rousette Bat Rousettus aegyptiacus, an animal used by humans for biomimicry. Illustration from the cover of “30 animals that made us smarter” by Partick Aryee.  This illustration cannot be re-used in any other book titles.

Egyptian Rousette Bat Rousettus aegyptiacus, an animal used by humans for biomimicry. Illustration from the cover of “30 animals that made us smarter” by Partick Aryee.  This illustration cannot be re-used in any other book titles.

White mustard Sinapis alba showing plant with leaves, flowers, and seed pods

Common British Garden invertebrates including violet ground beetle, silver y moth, earth worm, worm, flesh fly, honey bee, ladybird, and small tortoiseshell butterfly with written annotations on each

Honey bee Apis mellifera detailed illustration of the worker

Honey bee Apis mellifera visiting the pear blossom in spring

Harvest mouse Micromys minutus clinging to a golden sheaf of corn and twisting its tail round a stalk

Vegetable trug showing garden produce and a trowl, including leeks, raddichio, raspberries, radish, potatoes, tomatoes, chives, basil, kale, lettuce, raddichio, fennel, peas, carrots, and beans. A good day in the garden!

Sketchbook study of the Cornflower Centaura cyanus showing its rich blue colour and details of individual florets as well as of the thin leaves and flowering head, some details in colour and some in tonal pencil

Harvest mouse Micromys minutus clinging to a golden sheaf of corn and twisting its tail round a stalk

Raised bed growing chives, nasturtium, lavender, chili, cabbage, lettuce, rosemary, parsley, and violets

Container growing herbs including marjoram, chives, basil, chervril, salad, lettuce, and nasturtium

How to erect a polytunnel in six stages including how to put up the metal hoops, how to secure and attach the polythene covering, how to secure the bottom edges of the polythene, and how to build in an entrance way or door