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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Mark Hearld’s art encourages us to look with fresh eyes at the nature that surrounds us. It celebrates the flora and fauna that we so often take for granted: squirrels in the park pigeons on the rooftops and gulls on the seashore. His birds and animals are full of vitality and character whether they be linocuts or lithographs collaged from scraps of paper drawn or painted printed on textiles or reproduced on a dust jacket. Hearld is a remarkably versatile and creative individual describing himself not only as an artist but also as a ‘collagist printmaker designer of this and that and collector of tat’. He has an unstoppable creativity that can seemingly be applied to any medium with equal skill. Behind this lies a sense of visual delight – a pleasure in creation and an inquisitive mode of looking that reveals the overlooked for all to enjoy. Hearld’s view of nature is inherently English and is rooted in the seasonal variations of spring summer autumn and winter. The birds in his images are those that one might see when looking out of the window: starlings pigeons robins and gulls. Finding beauty in the everyday rather than in picturesque or dramatic landscapes Hearld focuses on the places where humane (MP)