The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • 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...

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    Rain

    June 13, 2018

    Heath spotted-orchid

    June 14, 2012

    The trees of Dollar Glen

    August 25, 2014
  • The magic of the birch

    February 14, 2013 /

    The birch is the tree of love, fertility, new beginnings... and broomsticks

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    The song of the aspen

    December 5, 2016

    The enchantment of the rowan

    September 9, 2013

    The fragrance of juniper

    November 29, 2015
  • 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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    Welcome to my new website!

    April 2, 2018

    The Hill o’ Many Stanes

    April 10, 2025

    Ossian, Fingal and the Falls of Lora

    July 19, 2023
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    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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