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Eric Ennion
Born 1900 / Died 1981

One man's birds

Medium: hardback book
Dimensions: 30 cm x 25 cm
Condition: new

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One man's birds

£35.00 + p&p

Medium: hardback book
Dimensions: 30 cm x 25 cm
Condition: new

Author: Bob Walthew
Artist: Eric Ennion
Publisher: Lavenham
Published: 2005
Pages: 144
ISBN: -

Quote: "FEBRUARY, for all its mud and rain and eccentricities, is far too short a month to miss (by going away abroad). At long last there is light enough to go a few miles and do a sketch before breakfast; there is time-sometimes-to slip out and hear the evensong of a thrush, after evening surgery. And between, grand skies, eloquent of ever changing weather; cock partridges, set each to his partner, in the green spring wheat; peewits tumbling and winnowing above them while others, destined to breed further north, awaiting the call, stand head to wind in their hundreds on the fallows. Always something to gladden the heart and invigorate the mind though the body be cramped in a car on its endless rushing between villages of a country practice. Sometimes, I confess, the lure is too strong. Just a five minute sketch from the border of the far-side ditch; jot down a colour note or two. What was that bird? I only saw it out of the corner of my eye and feel sure it settled in that hedge-the glasses are in the dashboard locker, wont take a minute."

Review: "One Man's Birds focuses on his field sketches from the 1930s which he kept as his lifetime reference material and which were the foundation for the development of his unique style. The book contains 475 individual studies as well as the 26 composite plates he prepared for the unpublished Bird Mans River. The sketches are reproduced alongside a selection of his evocative writings from the period: in search of birds in the Cambridgeshire fens, Breckland, North Norfolk, in the wildest parts of Britain and in the Netherlands and Iceland. One Mans Birds provides an unique record of his evolving genius. Many of the sketches are inscribed with date and place or other information."

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A life of birds

Medium: hardback book
Dimensions: 30 cm x 35 cm
Condition: new

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A life of birds

£25.00 + p&p

Medium: hardback book
Dimensions: 30 cm x 35 cm
Condition: new

Author: Bob Walthew
Artist: Eric Ennion
Publisher: Lavenham
Published: 2003
Pages: 80
ISBN: -

Quote: "I paint in the field as much and as often as possible, but you cant take all your studio clobber with you. I use as large a sketchbook as I can manage and one has to evolve rapid ways of painting. You obviously have to learn to draw very quickly, very accurately, and to develop a retentive memory of what you see. This comes with practise until, even with a bird in flight, you can put down exactly what you saw although the bird was moving the whole time. "

Review: "Eric Ennion's great strength as a bird artist was his ability to pin down the esssence of his bird in a few characterful lines and bold shapes. He imbued his birds with life and vitality, the product of intense, intelligent observation of the living bird. The pictures in this book are not formal, posed portraits, painted in photographic detail. Instead they capture birds in movement, or in the particular stance typical of the species. He treated them as individuals, with the quirky shapes that lively birds assume. Robert Gillmor"

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