Birds & Beasts of the British Countryside
A series of hand-painted photographs of dead animals encountered during Daniel & Clara's daily walks in the countryside. Each work is a uniquely painted c-type photograph with the name of the species along with place and date found inscribed in white india ink.
“Since we moved to the countryside in 2020, we often encounter dead animals during our daily walks, sometimes roadkill, sometimes the remains of another animal’s meal, and sometimes the body in an apparently pristine condition, the cause of death a mystery. We always feel a strange combination of repulsion and a desire to look. We found ourselves compulsively taking photographs each time we'd see a dead animal but it took us a while to know what we would do with these pictures. Painting became a way to have a deeper engagement with the subject and to bring into the photograph (a mechanical record of death) a vitality of life while lived (the marks of our conscious living engagement, and our empathetic leap into the dead animal’s experience).”
- Daniel & Clara
Birds & Beasts of the British Countryside (Fox)
c-type photograph hand-painted in acrylic, 2023
25.4 x 20.3 cm
unframed
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Birds & Beasts of the British Countryside (Garganey)c-type photograph hand-painted in acrylic, 2023
25.4 x 20.3 cm
unframed
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Birds & Beasts of the British Countryside (Brown Hare)
c-type photograph hand-painted in acrylic, 2023
25.4 x 20.3 cm
unframed
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Birds & Beasts of the British Countryside (Herring Gull)
c-type photograph hand-painted in acrylic, 2023
25.4 x 20.3 cm
unframed
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