Hazel Terry, Give Nature a Home III

I needed a change from intense rendering of fur and wanted to try to create an image that carried on from the work I did for 'Give Nature a Home'. Many current government policies are directly impacting on British wildlife as indeed around the world government and corporate policies do.
In Britain; it is badger culls, the possible repeal of fox hunting ban and a new laxer approach to the removal of bird nests from development sites. This combined with massive cuts to wildlife organisations and the removal of green belts all make a toxic administration in charge of our environment.
Of course animals cannot campaign or vote, so my sketches and final image played with this as an idea. My placard statement is not permanent as I had a variety that I wanted to use.

Hazel Terry, British Wildlife Series II: Fox

It is the summer holidays and at last I am getting the chance to focus totally on my work for a couple of weeks. Despite an eye infection I have thoroughly enjoyed 'drawing' this fox, which has been done in the same style as a badger picture that I produced in the Autumn for my father. 

I chose a fox because as with my badger of the Autumn it is threatened by current politics; with the possibility that the current government will repeal the ban on fox hunting. 

I say drawing but it is painted, using acrylics and a very fine brush. I am hoping to produce a series of British wildlife. This is a theme that is very close to my heart and I hope my work can be used to give support to these threatened species and their environments.

Roy Dee Forest I

Foxes and Wolves by Roy De Forest (1930-2007)

Sally Matthews

The sculpture of Sally Matthews, who has a fantastic capability to render animal forms from a vast variety of materials.

"Everyone has their own reasons for using animals in art, but for me I always go back to the animals themselves for inspiration. My love of them, their different form, movement, smell and nature are the reasons for my making them. Their nature, even of a domesticated or trained animal is unpredictable and wild, their presence is always enlivening. I want my work to remind people of our need for animals and the example their nature provides us with." Sally Matthews

Sally initially creates a metal armature (the equivalent of a line drawing and then she builds up the substance of the figure using materials that she feels represent the animal by it coire fibre, cow muck, steel, copper or wood.

Nicola Rowsell's Foxes

Nicola Rowsell is an accomplished illustrator here are some of her wonderful foxes, shrewd and beady eyed.

Nicky Clacy

Lovely paper mache by the artist Nicky Clacy. http://www.papiermachesculptures.co.uk/index.htm

Donna Wilson's Foxes

Donna Wilson's lovely fox scarfs, from her strange and wonderful collection of objects and designs. http://www.donnawilson.com/