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WILD WORLD - DOORSTEP DISCOVERIES

Another collaboration with filmmaker Nina Constable saw me produce a series of live illustrations for the award-winning web series-

‘Wild World - Doorstep Discoveries’.

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Filmed in entirely during the 2020 UK wide lockdown, these short films feature UK wildlife presenters and cameramen and women including some familiar faces; Megan McCubbin, Gillian Burke from Springwatch and Nick Baker from the Really Wild show, all reporting on their ‘doorstep discoveries’ during a time we were only allowed out for once a day for our daily walk!

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Using my watercolours and colour pencils, I filmed myself painting a series of time lapses of British birds. Each episode featured a different illustrated British bird and accompanying bird song lesion with naturalist Lucy Hodson.

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11 episodes were created in the end and the series went on to win several awards with the live illustrations featuring in each episode. The birds illustrated included a blackbird, chaffinch, blue tit, great tit, wren and even a Redwing for the Christmas episode to name a few. All the episodes can be viewed here.

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