Large Kingfisher Painting

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Large original oil painting of a Common Kingfisher perched on a mossy branch over water by Chris Chalk Art Studio

  • Title: Kingfisher Painting
  • Medium: Oil on stretched box canvas
  • Dimensions: 40" x 30" x 2.5" (100 cm x 76 cm x 6 cm)
  • Price: £1250
  • Status: Sold

This Kingfisher painting is of one of our local birds at Welsh Wildlife Centre, here in Cilgerran West Wales. I spend a lot of time watching and photographing wildlife at the Welsh Wildlife Centre, and I see these beautiful birds regularly. I'm also involved with bird ringing for the BTO ( British Trust for Ornithology ) and have had the pleasure of handling kingfishers as part of this process.

This painting was worked-up from a series of kingfisher photographs I've taken over the years, and was a commissioned painting. This is the largest kingfisher painting I've completed to date, at 40x30 inches, and I had to build a new painting easel to hold the canvas before I could begin the painting.

Kingfisher painting in the studio

Hand-painted on Loxley Gold stretched box canvas.