My Love of Painting Blue Tits

Everyone knows and loves the Blue Tit, which is partly why I like painting them.

For me, “Blue Tits in a Hedgerow Nest” is a much-loved composition, but with an original twist. Nature is so beautiful in winter, often dark with sudden flashes of colour. Country churches stand out in their own splendour.

The canvas has a sense of space, in direct contrast, to the detail of the hedgerow nest!

Whilst the original of this painting has been sold, but it is currently available to purchase as a Giclée Print, for more details click here.

As many of you already know, I like to continue my paintings around the sides of the canvas, so a frame isn’t necessarily needed.

Recently, I was delighted to receive some pictures from the new owners of another Blue Tits themed original canvas called “Blues Tits with White Roses”, sharing how they had decided to have it framed and the end result. The other painting also featured in the pictures called “Farmyard Cabbage” is one of my originals too.

I’m sure you will agree the framers The Haslemere Framing Co have done a wonderful job and the 2 paintings look lovely together.

“Blue Tits with White Roses” is also available to purchase as a Giclée Print, for more details click here.

This video shares a little more about the inspiration behind the painting and there is a transcription below the video should you prefer to read about it.

I think I’m probably a seasonal painter.

I was brought up in America in the countryside and we live in the countryside here in England.

I think my first inspiration was finding all these little details that I might find out in a winter garden or the hedgerow or just walking out and about in the countryside. Then I love the idea of a church in the distance.

I love the pure white, the clean white of the snow. And just peeping through the snow, coming with branches and just the sort of subtlety of it all and then, of course, the foreground, which I love for its detail, but I’ve made it probably with artistic license, a bit more vibrant, but then I have to think I want something living, and so I thought of blue tits.

The blue tits are what we all see outside of our window. And they are so tiny. But here, I really enjoyed making them, very demonstrative, very blue, very yellow, and very fat.

And I always like my birds or animals to be healthy, to be in a particularly interesting, contented position. That really matters to me, and particularly not with the birds so much but other animals, it matters about their expression.

The blue tits are probably having the time of their lives!