The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

  • About The Hazel Tree
  • Books
  • Contact
  • About The Hazel Tree
  • Books
  • Contact

Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

Latest blog posts for RSGS

Alexander Kellas - 'the most modest man that ever travelled the Himalayas'
Jane Digby el-Mezrab: from ballroom conquests to bedouin camps
Sir Everard im Thurn and an expedition to 'The Lost World'
Straight up the Prow: Roraima by the hardest route
  • Colin's easel

    Black grouse – a new painting

    July 15, 2015 /

    Colin has been working on this painting of black grouse over the last couple of weeks – it was on his easel at the Scottish Game Fair, and it’s now finished. There’s a lovely iridescence in the male’s plumage, and the two greyhens are beautiful in their intricate camouflage.  The grass was probably the biggest headache – weaving it around to make it look real! Images copyright © Colin Woolf.  More of his work can be seen at www.wildart.co.uk You can read more about black grouse here on The Hazel Tree.  

    Read More

    You May Also Like

    New woodcock painting: ‘The Secret’

    March 7, 2014

    Painting with a woodcock’s pin-feather

    January 13, 2012

    A wise hare

    July 31, 2014
  • Colin's easel

    New woodcock painting: ‘The Secret’

    March 7, 2014 /

    How many people have seen a woodcock carrying its chick in flight? Colin's lovely new painting captures just that... and it's painted with a woodcock's feather!

    Read More

    You May Also Like

    Woodcock pin-feather paintings – with gold leaf

    December 28, 2015

    Red deer painting – now finished

    February 8, 2016

    New painting: Golden plover

    June 20, 2013
  • Wildlife & Nature

    Cockshut – lost in the shadows of twilight

    April 8, 2013 /

    The origin of 'cockshut', an age-old term for dusk, lies in the secretive habits of woodcock...

    Read More

    You May Also Like

    The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy

    November 13, 2021

    Heath milkwort

    August 12, 2012

    The enchantment of the rowan

    September 9, 2013

"To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."

Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
All content - © 2022 Jo Woolf - Ashe Theme by Royal-Flush
 

Loading Comments...