I've loved wildlife since I was a child, and over the years that love has found its way into almost everything I paint. Somewhere along the way, I became rather wonderfully obsessed with capturing birds and animals in all their quiet, extraordinary beauty.
Badger in Spring came about in the most lovely way. A customer commissioned a lamp featuring a badger, and as I sat painting it, I found myself completely enchanted. There's something about a badger; that bold, graphic face, the gentle lumbering dignity that just gets under your skin. They've been a recurring presence in my work ever since.
This piece is part of a series I created celebrating five of my favourite creatures set against the seasons I adore most. Spring felt like the perfect home for the badger; all that new life pushing through, the colours fresh and hopeful, the world waking up again. I wanted the painting to feel like a moment caught just as the season turns: vibrant, tender, and full of quiet wonder.
Painted using specialist colourfast, water-based paint on glass and set in a beautiful white wooden moulded frame, it's a piece that brings a little of the wild indoors.
Details: specialist colourfast, water-based paint on glass; white wooden moulded frame.
Frame dimensions: Height: 30cm / Width: 30cm / Depth: 4cm (approx)
Original painting. One of a kind.
