Wivenhoe, Essex/Suffolk based artist ianlonghurstart@gmail.com

Maybe, Female Sparrowhawk eyeing up her prey

I have recently taken over the website myself, my sister very kindly ran it for me up to a little while ago, but I felt I should take more of an interest in it myself, so here I am, unfortunately all this computor malarkey is quite a lot out of my comfort zone, so please be patient with me. I shall shortly be getting help from a friend in exchange for a bit of work on his mini engine, a bit more my kind of world. The biggest issue is the pricing, the app has made some of the

This is a new piece of work, I've titled it "scrumping", I was inspired by this young male blackbird eating apples I'd saved on a garden chair, so I thought I'd give it a bit more interest, you can see the painting in its various stages on my instagram page,( Ians_birds_paintings_

This piece has now gone off to the printers and framers, and 25 limited edition prints will be for sale very soon.

New completed work, Bullfinches with a late winter feast of rose hips. Needs to go to be photographed and framed, then it will be...