Michael C Wood

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wildlife artist & illustrator

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Golden oriole
Set at the Finca Santa Marta near Trujillo, Extremadura, Spain, this is as much a portrait of the ancient cork oak as the bird.

Acrylic on board.
Image 420 x 330 mm, in oak frame 630 x 530 mm.

£ POA
Prints £25

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Harlequin Ducks west of Grundarfjordur, Iceland
These beautiful and extremely powerful ducks gather in small parties on the coastal creeks after breeding up river. The glistening white markings on the males break up their shape against the dark grey volcanic sands and rocks.

Acrylic on paper.
Image 222 x 326 mm, in black frame 440 x 540 mm.

£ 650
Prints available.

Azure-winged magpies in olive grove
Also set at the Finca Santa Marta near Trujillo, Extremadura, Spain. Family parties of these birds forage among the contorted branches of small olive trees and lush meadows full of flowers such as tassel hyacinth. In a landscape which gets baked in the summer heat, a single stem of Phragmites reed was growing in the damp pocket of the hollow olive trunk.

Acrylic on board.
Image 418 x 322 mm, in oak frame 630 x530 mm.

Prints available.

Crimson-rumped toucanets (work in progress)
I started this large painting as soon as I returned from a trip to the cloud forests of Ecuador, then got sidetracked by book illustrations for three years. I hope to get back onto it soon, but in the meantime it has travelled around and several people have bought prints as it stands.

Acrylic, 695 x 500 mm.

Night herons at S’Albufera, Mallorca
Seen against the sunset above one of the small channels adjacent to the Grand Canal, the night herons fly out from their daytime tree roost to feed in the marshes.

Acrylic on canvas.