#natural england

[niqvassieart]

Gouache painting of long-tailed tits for the upcoming book about my local nature reserve.

Long-tailed tits make stretchy nests from a base of moss and spider silk. On the outside they’re covered in lichen for camouflage and inside are lined with feathers for cosiness!

[unkn0wnvariable]

Ling Flowers

The delicate pink flowers of ling (aka common heather), soaking up the sun in one of the clearings at Holme Fen.

[rattycatcat]

Impacts of invasive species on native freshwater populations in the UK

Freshwater habitats are amongst the most vulnerable in the United Kingdom. The anthropological impacts on freshwater environments are disproportionate to those of terrestrial environments as fragmentation, pollution and climate change have greater impact on an already unstable habitat (Eatherly, 2019). As a result, the impacts of invasive species in aquatic environments are greater than those in…

[theknitpotato]

In 1850, a farmer found a secret village. It was later determined to be older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt. Archeologists estimated that 100 people lived in this village named Skara Brae, the "Scottish Pompeii." The houses were connected to each other by tunnels, and each house could be closed off with a stone door.

[petitworld]

Iford Manor Gardens, Iford, England by Stacy Cartledge

[janasojka]

Night drive, daffodils.

[ancientsstudies]

Bishop's Palace by wordyelaine.

[maureen2musings]

York

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[illustratus]

Transept of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire by Joseph Mallord William Turner

[horrorcitos]

John Barbiaux

[niqvassieart]

Painting I was commissioned to do for an upcoming book about my local nature reserve here in North Yorkshire, UK.

All the digital paintings i made for the book are of real places. It was so lovely to be asked to illustrate my home and fun trying to capture the seasonal light and mood of somewhere I know so well!

Here is a lesser spotted woodpecker visiting the area in winter. Pictured with barn owl, roe deer and gulls coming into roost on the floodwater.

[unkn0wnvariable]

Foxglove Flowers

The bright pink trumpet flowers of a fox glove, flowering in a sunlit clearing in Holme Fen.

[etherea1ity]

Jurassic Coast, Southern England by Ernest de Kat

[yz]

Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts.

October 2024.

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: acalmwalk

[petitworld]

Manor Garden, Snowshill, England by Warwick Hunt