Somewhere between beginning this painting and ‘seeing’ birds in it, there has been a Bank Holiday, Summer, a new PC with the challenge of Windows 11, a season that gives us winter between 6pm and 10am with summer in between, a book, and an interface with WordPress that turns one of these , into one of those <. So I’m writing this into Word and hoping it stays as is when it’s pasted into my blog. Here goes …

Success [and it stuck with it throughout].

The image below is a crop from the much larger piece and posted solely because of its visitor, here illustrating the wildlife equivalent of not being able to do the washing up because the cat’s on your knee.

Somewhere around here, I folded this painting in half, determined that the two parts looked better on their own, and cut it down the middle. The top half became a city on a hill with a forest around it, while the bottom, turned upside down, became a firey landscape with a trubulent sky. Naturally, I filled that one with collaged silhouettes of birds. These are in the next post.

The medium is acrylics, the support is thin card (A1), and the birds – all hand-drawn without reference images – painted in bright colours on one side, black on the other and cut out with scissors. More images and a video in the next post.

© Suzanne Conboy-Hill 2025