
Hay Festival Landscape
Hay Festival Landscape completed for Hay Festival Mug design 2022

Welsh meadow landscape with Redstart
Welsh meadow landscape with Redstart, buzzard, swallows and lots of butterflies (Gilfach Nature reserve). Numerous animal species illustrated include swallows, hoverfly, grasshopper, and bees. Flowers include knapweed, thistles, buttercup, bedstraws, betony, sedges, and other riverside meadow plants.

Stirtons Whitebeam Sorbus stirtoniana
Stirtons Whitebeam Sorbus stirtoniana. Botanical illustration of this very rare tree with blossom, individual leaves, and a cluster of red berries

Wild daffodil Narcissus pseudonarcissus
Wild daffodil Narcissus pseudonarcissus straight on and in side view

Western Gorse Ulex galli
Western Gorse Ulex galli with flower and individual leaf detail

Mountain pansy Viola lutea
Mountain pansy Viola lutea with several flowers and showing the different leaf shapes

Mountain pansy Viola lutea with landscape
Mountain pansy Viola lutea with a dales landscape behind

Cross leaved heather Erica tetralix
Cross leaved heather Erica tetralix with close up of flower, distinctive stame, and individual leaf with red gland at the base

Welsh river landscape 2
Welsh river landscape looking across a stretch of smooth water to the trees on the opposite bank

Welsh river landscape with boat
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

Oak woodland with lichens, moss, insects and birds
Oakland landscapw with details of mosses and lickesn and some insects that live in and on the oak trees including beetles and wasps; bird in the background include the nuthatch, pied flycatcher, warbler, and great tit

Meadow with butterflies
Landscape showing distant valley with meadow land near to, wild flowers in the foreground include birds foot trefoil, harebell, tormentil, black knapweed and grasses; male and female blue butterflies rest and flutter around these flowers

Close up view of heathland bog with sundew and spider
Close up view of sphagnum moss with sundew growing amongst rushes, a spider hides in the moss

Rocky outcrop landscape with red kite
View of limestone rocky landscape with red kite circling overhead and rough grassland and occasional trees; based on the uplands at Gilfach nature reserve near Rhayder, Wales

Country pool scene
Landscape of a large pond or lake with distant reeds and trees behind a fence; butterflies, birds, frogs and dragonflies are in the foreground along with bullrush and wild flowers

Bluebell wood with redstart and a walkway across a woodland stream
Bluebell wood with the spring flowrs carpeting the forest floor, in the foreground a male redstart perches on a tree stump with lichen, behind are some butterflies and a pied flycatcher perches on the wooden bridge walkway that covers an area of boggy ground, beyond the path stretches away into distant airy woodland and sunlight

Red kite Milvus milvus
Red kite Milvus milvus in flight from below showing its distinctive v shaped tail

Goosander Mergus merganser pair on lake
Goosander or Common merganser Mergus merganser on a lake with sundew, rocks and a beach in the foreground, scrubby vegetation behind, set in northern Wales uplands.