Melanie Mascarenhas ASWLA

201 - Swooping Sand Martins and a ponderance of Plovers

Melanie Mascarenhas ASWLA

Gouache, pastel and coloured pencil, 36x41cm (52x57cm framed)

I spent a day on a remote secluded beach at the north end of Barra Island, watching Swooping Sand Martins. They were nesting in the magnificent dune system & feeding across the fields above & down...

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200 - Sand Martins with passing Dunlin (i)

Melanie Mascarenhas ASWLA

Multi-process lithograph, 29x41cm (45x57cm framed)

This is a multi-process, multi-plate hand burnished lithographic print. It is a combination of Kitchen Litho on Fabriano Rosaspina white, Lemon-etch Litho & a small area of monotype on fine Abaca...

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199 - Safe haven

Melanie Mascarenhas ASWLA

Watercolour, ink and pastel, 31x47cm (47x63cm framed)

A field painting of very pregnant female Grey Seals, peacefully snoozing together by Kirkhaven on the Isle of May. A very different atmosphere compared with other areas of the island. None of these...

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198 - Recumbent

Melanie Mascarenhas ASWLA

Watercolour, ink and pastel, 33x44cm (49x60cm framed)

This is a field painting of a heavily pregnant Atlantic Grey Seal on the Isle of May. A special time & place to be during pupping season. This basking beauty took ownership of that particular rocky...

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197 - Gylfinir, Conwy Estuary (i)

Melanie Mascarenhas ASWLA

Multi-process lithograph, 28x41cm (44x57cm framed)

This is a multi-process, multi-plate hand burnished lithographic print. It is a combination of Kitchen Litho on Fabriano Rosaspina, Lemon-etch Litho & a small area of monotype on fine Abaca tissue...

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196 - A blizzard of Razorbills, Barra Head

Melanie Mascarenhas ASWLA

Watercolour, ink, gouache and pastel, 56x49cm (72x49cm framed)

This painting is an expression & feeling of combined experiences whilst sailing to Barra Island aboard The Lady of Avenel Tall Ship. The first at Barra Head drawing the constant swooping, circling...

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199 - View from the edge

Melanie Mascarenhas ASWLA

Ink, watercolour, pastel and pencil, 58x41cm (70x53cm framed)

There is something I find eternally thrilling about being perched atop a rugged cliff edge amongst a throng of nesting seabirds. I wanted to convey that feeling of being like a bird on a ledge,...

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198 - The offering

Melanie Mascarenhas ASWLA

Oil based lithographic print with chine collé, 29x41cm (41x53cm framed)

This is a multi-process hand burnished lithographic print. It is a combination of Kitchen Litho on Fabriano Rosaspina, Lemon-etch Litho & a small area of monotype on fine Abaca tissue. It too is...

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197 - One last look

Melanie Mascarenhas ASWLA

Oil based monotype, 29x36cm (41x48cm framed)

A monotype on Japanese Washi paper based on sketches & memories made while stealthily edging along the coastline of Puffin Island & drifting to the last point before having to follow the tide home...

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196 - Llurs and Ladies

Melanie Mascarenhas ASWLA

Watercolour, ink, pastel and coloured pencil, 50x34cm (62x46cm framed)

This painting, which began in the field, is inspired by drawings & observations of a small group of Razorbills on the slopes of a steep cliff face in North wales. Initially drawn to the rich colours...

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195 - Little Tern turn, shuffle, kick

Melanie Mascarenhas ASWLA

Ink, watercolour, pastel and coloured pencil, 35x54cm (47x66cm framed)

This painting is based on many drawings made while observing a colony of nesting Little Terns from a little viewing hide, high up above the dunes. Situated along the shingle ridge on Gronant beach,...

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194 - Grey Seal haul-out, Ynys Seiriol

Melanie Mascarenhas ASWLA

Oil based collagraph, monotype and chine collé, 29x34cm (41x46cm framed)

This is a multi-process print consisting of collagraph, monotype & Chine Collé, based on drawings of the Puffin Island grey seals made while aboard the sailing boat, Dulcinea. It combines hand...

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