Tim wootton biography
Having to make space on the gallery walls for new work, so in a fit of madness we have reduced the prices of many original paintings.
The new prices are the unframed price - please note postage and packing is at cost, or FREE for orders over £450.
Many thanks or looking!
1: arctic terns (50cm x 35cm, watercolour, was £575, no frame £SOLD)
2: black headed gulls (80cm x 50cm, watercolour, was £750, now £450 - unframed)
3: female red-backed shrike (40cm x 30cm) was £525, now £SOLD)
4: hares and snipes (conte & watercolour, 90cm x 50cm, was £835 now £SOLD)
5: lapwing (watercolour, 80cm x 50cm, was £735 now £375 - unframed)
6: liquid black - shags and eiders (charcoal, 70cm x 50cm, was £785 now £SOLD)
7: long-tailed ducks (charcoal, 90cm x 50cm, was £775 now £375 unframed)
8: manx shearwaters (charcoal, 90cm x 50cm, was £825 now £SOLD
9: Roller (70cm x 50cm, watercolour, was £785 now £390 unframed)
10: Should I stay or should I go - shags (charcoal, 75cm x 50cm, was £695 now £SOLD)
11: trout (charcoal, 80cm x 50cm, was £395 now £200 unframed)
12: willow warbler (watercolour, 50cm x 35cm, was £445 now £SOLD
13: woodchat shrike (watercolour, 70cm x 50cm, was £1250 now £SOLD)
14: wrens in butterbur (conte & watercolour, 80cm x 50cm, was £775 now £SOLD)
15: yellow-browed warblers (conte & watercolour, 80cm x 50cm, was £855 now £SOLD unframed)
I spent some time during June continuing the theme of light as a mood and not merely a way of illuminating a painting. The members of the local eider population are accessible and compliant models for drawing and painting and also photographing; they are powerful in structure yet soft in plumage and offer much for the artist to contemplate. The auks – guillemots, razorbills and puffins – have similar characteristics with the added complexity of highlighted darks and shadowed whites.
"The Ledge" is a painting involving interaction on the cliffs and deals with highlight and shadows falling on disparate hues and textures.
There is always a dichotomy regarding the depiction of puffins; the well-known clown of the cliffs and the fierce little predator living life on the edge. Of course the puffin knows nothing of these labels and characterisations – it is what it is and it does what it does. This puffin painting is an attempt to de-anthropomorphise this species and to see them in terms of design and composition.
Living in Orkney, I’m never far from awesome and inspirational land and seascapes. In certain weather conditions however, the urge to work plein air is curtailed by the knowledge that a force 8 could see paper, paints and artist taking to the air and, ultimately, to the sea. The camera was invented for such conditions . . .
Interpretation of one’s photographs is as much a challenge of mood-setting as that of value and hue application.
Once again bird-survey work has been a major occupation this spring and has eaten into a lot of available sketching and painting time. It does, however, ensure that I get out into the field in all weathers and at the extremes of the day. This brings me into contact with various birds in different light and weather and each bring unique stimuli to the painter of the natural world.
This common sandpiper was calling in alarm as I entered his water-margin territory on the Loc
John Timothy Wootton, PhD
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Tim Wootton Exhibit
Special Art Exhibit
Tim Wootton's art displayed at PPVC in Rockland
Tim Wootton, one of Scotland’s most celebrated bird artists is showing his seabird art at the Project Puffin Visitor Center in Rockland. His work features watercolor and acrylic paintings of seabirds from across the Atlantic. Wootton paints from life, near his home in Orkney, Scotland but these northern latitude seabird species are also found along Maine island shores. His paintings show a deep understanding of bird behavior, anatomy, and have an indefinable quality that brings the scene to life. Some even include field notes incorporated into the art.
Among his many awards, recently Wooton was the Birdwatch/Swarovski Artist of the Year in 2011, and also the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year. He received the PJC Award for Drawing, and was selected to exhibit for the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year, 2011.
Tim’s book Drawing & Painting Birds was published and reprinted in 2011. He writes and illustrates articles on Ecology, conservation and the natural world (Birds Illustrated Magazine, Birdwatching Magazine, Scottish Islands Explorer, Artists & Illustrators Magazine, Yorkshire Post Saturday Supplement, etc.)
His work is widely exhibited in Britain; this is his first show in the U.S.
The art is for sale at Project Puffin’s online store through the end of October. Part of the proceeds benefits seabird conservation at Audubon’s Maine seabird sanctuaries.