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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  • 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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    In search of MacMarquis’s chin

    August 26, 2023

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    March 18, 2023

    Looking for a fairy portal

    December 27, 2021
  • 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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    Red deer painting

    January 13, 2016

    Dunaverty and St Columba’s Footprints

    November 29, 2020

    Brown trout painting – now finished!

    January 25, 2014
    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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