Paintings and Photogtaphs of Britsh WildlifeArtist’s Information and contact details Angela Pyatt has worked as an artist since 1969. Having previously shown her work jointly with other local artists, she held her first solo exhibition in Market Drayton, at the former Shoplatch Gallery and coffee house. Many of her scraperboards of wildlife were printed on to slate and sold throughout this country and abroad, together with other magazine illustrations. Since that time she has exhibited regularly and today sells much of her work through commission. She works in a diversity of mediums, from water colour and gouache, pen and ink and scraperboard, to acrylics of social history and bold abstracts with gold leaf, at her studio at Market Drayton, in Shropshire, as featured in Art of England magazine. Specializing in paintings of British wildlife and landscape, she takes inspiration from the wildlife in the Staffordshire and Shropshire countryside around her home and studio/gallery and from her own photography, in particular of birds. She ran a wildlife rescue centre for many years, so had the subjects for her detailed and intricate work living on the premises. Having cared for everything from badgers to birds of prey and weasels to hedgehogs, she is luckier that many wildlife artists, having an intimate and hands on knowledge of the wildlife that she paints. She also writes on wildlife, the countryside and country life in general and gives talks on wildlife rescue to both schools and adult groups.  Angela spends a great deal of her time in Norfolk, in particular in the bird Mecca that is Cley; where she is often to be found down on the Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserve or at Titchwell where Spring Watch is based.She says ‘I find that getting there at that time, as the sun comes up and before the birds are disturbed by other visitors, rewards me with a chance to take uninterrupted, quiet time to study bird behaviour and make preliminary sketches, together with the opportunity to take intimate close up photographs, which I use as reference for my work, when back in my Studio. Barn owls and marsh harriers are normally in evidence early in the morning, reed and sedge warblers and bearded tits amongst the whispering reeds and the waders and wildfowl are feeding close in to the hides. It’s a magic time of day to me.  I am normally heading home, at a time when many other birders are beginning their morning, although I go back to the reserve, or visit other sites, several times during the day, to study a variation of light and shade and climate changes, which can totally alter a familiar scene. I find it quite addictive in any season.’Angela is happy for you to contact her to discuss commissions, with no obligation to purchase, for details of forthcoming exhibitions, or to visit her studio/gallery on 01630658126