landscape

Hay Festival Landscape completed for Hay Festival Mug design 2022

White Oak Quercus alba with schematic and simplified root structure

Wood ants guide cover image Cairngorms national park and Southern red wood ants Formica fusca practising trophallaxis

Large landscape showing an idealised view of Bantham estate in Devon.  It explains the process of succession and stabilization in a sand dunes landscape.  Over 28 species of plant and 17 animals appear in this natural history illustration.  These include adders to sand wasps, Comma butterflies to linnets, and marram grass to Sea carrots. Species […]

Woodstock water meadow view with wildlife pond in foreground; seen with otter, kingfisher, and Peacock butterfly

Hay meadow cross section showing mole burrow and roots below the soil and flowers, butterflies, and insects above ground

Landscape of a field of flowers with beehives and honey bee workers

Mountain pansy Viola lutea with a dales landscape behind

Common heather Calluna vulgaris with individual leaf, stem cross section, and flwoer detail and also showing the woody stem

Cornish heath Erica vagans showing dense foliage and individual pale pink flower

Bell heather Erica cinerea with close up of individual flower

Snipe flying across a ride clearing in woodland with forestry behind showing how to manage and harvest trees and related prodcuts such as charcoal, coppicing and timber; a distant pool and alder carr gives way to clear fell forestry on distant hills and patchy clearings; in the foreground wild flowers and butterflies are shown growing […]

Distant landscape of hills and fiels with a tree in the midground, in the foreground butterflies such as the ringlet and meadow brown rest on orchids and buttercups

Wetland landscape with a water rail emerging from the fringing vegetation and a cross section of the stream shows fish, aquatic invertebrates, and a blue dragonfly; a frog rests below an orchid and pond skater sit on the water surface

Wetland landscape with curlew and pearl bordered fritillary in the foreground on emergent vegetation, behind a flooded area of meadow tails into distant hills, cows and swans graze fields and yellow flag, blackberry and alder fill the foreground.

Welsh river landscape looking across a stretch of smooth water to the trees on the opposite bank

View of the river Wye over a still pool with overhanging tree and a little row boat moored by the river bank, distant hills behind

View of a traditional little house in the northern village of Coxwold with trees behind and wisteria growing up the front

Three views of fenland with increasignly complex networks of inter dependent species, culminating in a rich landscape with wild flowers, a hobby hunting dragonfly, and heacy with insect life

Traditional stone hump backed bridge with two arches crossing over the river Enelode which runs beneath it, flanked with maringal vegetation and plants

Salt marsh landscape showing mud and a cross section of the snails and invertebrates who live here, wading and predatory birds above in the glasswort and aquatic plants; further away from the salt estuary are soft cliffs and the distant sea

View of a head water stream with dipper, wagtail, waterfall and damselflies then view of a river with a heron fishing from a shingle bank, sand marten flying low, and dragonfly and beetles at home amongst driftwood; the river meanders on to a wetland meadow delta with grazing herds and established aquatic plant communities flanking […]

Landscape of a reed bed with a cross section of the water in the forground and showing fish and amphibians living in the water, along with a close up of some microscopic aquatic invertebrates; in the sky hobby hunt for dragonfly and damselfly and swallows fly; otter, bittern, and water vole hide in the margins […]

Watercolour reed bed showing the layers of reeds with trees and shrubs behind and distant hills