The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Woodcock pin-feather painting – in progress

    September 6, 2014 /

    A beautiful new painting on Colin's easel, with a wintry backdrop of snowy hills

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    A walk to St Columba’s Bay

    May 4, 2025

    The deer stone

    April 6, 2021

    A new treasure: ‘Trees and How They Grow’ by G Clarke Nuttall

    May 25, 2015
  • 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!

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    Black grouse – a new painting

    July 15, 2015

    Orkney: St Magnus’ Cathedral, Kirkwall

    November 27, 2023

    The Hill o’ Many Stanes

    April 10, 2025
  • Painting with a woodcock’s pin-feather

    January 13, 2012 /

    It’s been a while since I’ve published anything under ‘Colin’s Easel’.  This isn’t, as you might imagine, because he’s been lazing around doing nothing and indulging in the occasional Islay malt!  (Although Islay malts do apparently help inspire the creative process.)  No, far from it – he finished lots of pictures before Christmas but these were all special commissions, and we couldn’t publicise them because that would have risked spoiling someone’s surprise. Here is a series of images showing the progress of a woodcock pin-feather painting – in fact, this one was used as one of our Christmas cards for 2011.  It’s entitled ‘Christmas Morning’. Although Colin paints mostly with a…

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    Woodcock pin-feather painting – in progress

    September 6, 2014

    ‘Bonnie Scotland’ by A R Hope Moncrieff and Harry Sutton Palmer

    January 11, 2016

    Red deer painting – now finished

    February 8, 2016
    New book

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

    Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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