Words about wildlife art.

The difficulty in this genre is to make these subjects look completely natural - a considerable challenge in any medium, let alone one in which colour is absent and mistakes cannot be erased. I use the same techniques in my wildlife art that I use in my figure drawings: sound composition, dramatic lighting and a wide tonal range. In this sense the drawings share more with fine art black and white model photography than they do with more traditional wildlife images. The lighting and tonal range adds impact to what might otherwise have been rather ordinary scenes. In the high-key works the challenge is still about lighting and composition. Drawings of white birds on white paper may seem counter-intuitive, but in 24K gold they have a beauty all of their own.