This is a smaller version of a painting that has already sold. It is of course an original too and inevitably different to its bigger brother. The story of the annual breeding migration of this amazing species is only just beginning to be understood. Even hardened birders are shaking their heads at what coming to light about this super-triathlon bird. You can read more in the description accompanying the larger Godwit painting on this site.

Every bird painting is a different challenge because both the bird and the light falling on it are never exactly the same, But that is what makes arts wonderful, The artist has the opportunity to show the viewer what his well-trained eye has discerned and offers this fleeting moment to the viewers.