Penny Sarchet
Managing editor, London
I鈥檝e long wanted to attend the Society of Wildlife Artists鈥� annual Natural Eye exhibition, and a few weeks ago, I finally did. The art showcase ran at the Mall Galleries in London in October, and it is available to until 1 December.
Magazine editor Eleanor Parsons and I began by enthusing about each of the featured species. 鈥淥oh widgeon! Curlew! Long-tailed tits!鈥� Next, we played the 鈥渨hich-would-you-buy鈥� game, only to discover that the piece I liked the most was the least practical: an astonishing found-object sculpture of a red underwing moth (above) by Dean Patman. At the time of writing, it is still available, if you share my appreciation of moths and have 拢1750 to spare.
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In the UK, this is the season of winter migrants, when braving the winds at a muddy wetland rewards you with recently arrived ducks and waders galore. In lieu of an estuary, many of the artworks 鈥� in which wetland birds often starred 鈥� proved a calming substitute.
