watercolour

Hedgerows encourage birds, mammals, and insects and are easy to integrate into a garden.  this Swedish garden scene shows this priniciple.

Illustrations showing a garden with closely cropped grass, a lot of hard surfaces, few trees and shrubs, and non-native annuals which don’t support pollinators.  For more please check out my blog  and the associated blog, on how to take steps to having an ideal garden.

Great burnet Sanguisorba officinalis with detail of individual flower

Used as the basis for a diagram showing the Carbon cycle. For more on this illustration, check out my blog

Black oil beetle Meloe proscarabaeus showing distinctive abdominal shape and antennae.

Spotted flycatcher Muscicapa striata perched on a gravestone, eating a beetle.  Completed for Cusop Churchyard nature panel.

Wasps and bees hibernating in cracks in an old wall, showing common UK bee and social wasp species in the mortar of a church wall

Plums and Custard Fungus tricholomopsis rutilans showing mature and young fruting bodies.  This fungi is distinctive in its purple mottling on a cream background.

Redwing Turdus iliacus perched on a branch, with a berry in its beak

Fountain Grass Pennisetum setaceum sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

English Scurvygrass Cochlearia anglica botanical watercolour illustration showing details of flower with elongate petals, and the distinctive neck of the fruit

Red sea coral reef scene showing clown fish, sea urchins, star puffer fish, brain coral, squirrel fish, sea anenome, and lettuce coral

Oregon Grape Mahonia aquifolium sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Yellow Loosestrife Lysimachia punctata sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Butterfly bush Buddleja davidii sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Old Man’s Beard Clematis vitalba sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Giant Goldenrod Solidago gigantea sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Himalayan Knotweed Persicaria polystachum sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Narrow-leaved Ragwort Senecio inaequidens sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Oriental Bittersweet Celastrus orbiculatus sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Snowberry Symphoricarpos albus sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Garden bumblebee cut to white showing markings and shaggy long hair

Completed for Butterfly Conservation.  The plant shows flowers and seed pods.

Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines butterfly with Cuckoo-flower Cardamine pratensis.  Illustration shows male butterfly with wigs open, and another with wings folder closed on the host plant Cuckoo-flower (or Ladies’ smock)