Halcyon Days – Kingfisher

Amanda is a professional watercolour artist who specialises in painting British wildlife and birds. She began her art career drawing wildlife and pet portraits in pencil but then discovered watercolour on a fine art course and fell in love with its unpredictable and uniquely evocative quality.

As a child Amanda fell in love with nature, seeing red deer coming down from the hills and weasels playing in her garden near Edinburgh and then as an adult living in Yorkshire, watching the elusive, brown hares boxing and chasing in the fields around her home in winter, she became totally fascinated with wildlife.

Working now from her garden studio on the banks of the Basingstoke Canal on the Hampshire/Surrey border, she is constantly inspired by the wildlife that shares the space around her: roe deer, owls, foxes, geese, kingfishers, ducks, and garden birds, among others, which then become the topic of her paintings. Amanda tries to convey this passion and the wild, transient beauty of her subjects in the loose, expressive style of her work.