Leo du Feu - Landscape, Art, Nature, Birds

Friday, 18 October 2019

2020 calendar + new winter cards - order now

To order calendars or cards please get in touch by email or through my website or Facebook or Twitter.

- Cards are ready to post now. Calendars will be ready before end of November.
- Pickup in Central Edinburgh is available to save postage.

2020 Calendar:

- folded & stapled (not spiral bound)

- 21x30cm (A4) closed, 42x30cm (A3) open.

- 100% recycled paper/card

£10 per copy, plus postage.

Calendar will contain these 12 images plus front cover:

bridge to Roslin Castle, watercolour & gouache, 23.5x31.5cm

Buchan coast, watercolour, 25x30cm

Cruachan, acrylic, 48x69cm

do not approach, seabird research data collection, watercolour, 18x35cm

island, watercolour, 15x21cm

Isle of May summer cliffs, watercolour, 26.5x38cm

Pilgrim's Haven, ink, 25x35cm

RSPB Forsinard Flows, watercolour, 15x21cm

Scots pines, West Highland Line, mixed media, 25x35cm

southern light, acrylic, circular painting diameter 7cm

Torry dolphins 2, watercolour, 15x21cm

the puffin and the angel, acrylic, 20x28cm

These 12 paintings are all available to own - please contact me for more info.

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Cards:

4 designs available - 2 new this year plus some of last year's seven snow hares & winter deer:

ivy trees - card size is c.10.5cm x 14.5cm. (This painting is still available)

sheep in snow - card size is c.10.5cm x 14.5cm

seven snow hares - card size is c.12.5cm x 17.5cm

winter deer - card size is c.12.5cm x 17.5cm (this painting is available from Open Eye Gallery)

Cards are blank inside so not just for Christmas. Envelope is white.

The 2 new designs are on 100% recycled card.

- £1.50 per card
- £12 for 5 of each design
- £20 for 10 of each design

+ postage

Edinburgh pickup is available.

Get in touch by email or through my website or Facebook or Twitter

Monday, 19 August 2019

Burntisland exhibition - Island Jewels of the Forth - Aug 2019

A small selection of my and mum's Isle of May and other Forth islands paintings and sketches are displayed (and for sale!) in Burntisland Heritage Trust's Summer Exhibition: Island Jewels of the Forth. A fascinating packed-with-info-and-photos, "island hopping tour which shines a spotlight on the now mainly deserted islands of the outer Firth of Forth from the Bass Rock at the mouth of the Forth westwards to the iconic Forth Bridges. The exhibition examines their character and rich natural heritage, and tells a few tales that deserve to be better known."

Until 31st August:

Wed 1-4pm

Thur, Fri, Sat 11am-4pm

Free admission.
Burntisland Heritage Trust, 4 Kirkgate, Burntisland

www.burntisland.net

Message me if you wish to know prices of any of the works or to see better pics.

Burntisland is only a 35 minute train journey from Edinburgh. When you come visit the Museum of Communication at the same time. It really is a hidden gem.

Open Wed & Sat, 11am-4pm until 28th September.

www.mocft.co.uk/news

And visit the bookshop, the cafes, the lots of independent shops, the library. Birdwatch along the shore and at the Lammerlaws. Walk the Binn circle for brilliant views of town and Forth and Edinburgh and Pentlands and Three Bridges and North Berwick Law and Bass Rock and even the Isle of May far far off if the weather is clear. Binn walk - http://landscapeartnaturebirds.blogspot.com/2014/01/scotland-by-rail-burntisland-fife-hill.html

Read this recent blog post (not mine) for a pretty comprehensive 'what's in Burntisland' - www.funkyellastravel.com/funkyellas-scottish-travel-blog/burntisland-fife

Wednesday, 10 July 2019

Scotland by Rail - Markinch station - book swap and old railway photos - Grey Partridge recovery project

A station I've seen from the train many times through my life, usually on the way to and from Aberdeen or Montrose, but never before got off at. It's in a steep cutting and the infrastructure - buildings and bridges is modern but go into the ticket office waiting room and you find a book-swap bookcase, loads of fascinating old rail photos stacked across all the windowsills (there are lots of windowsills) and a wooden train set. Absolutely brilliant and what a difference made to an otherwise functional, standardised, uninspiring building. And how inspiring that this sort of thing is still allowed in as large an organisation as ScotRail. Thank you stationmaster and thank you ScotRail.

You can walk out into the countryside from Markinch station in only moments and a couple of miles of country road between woods and meadows gets you to the fields, copses and hedgerows of Balgonie Farm. This is the home of a really successful-sounding Grey Partridge Recovery Project. Grey Partridge are one of our native 'game' birds and are now Red-List threatened with extinction having crashed to a tiny percentage of their historic UK population. Europe-wide they are declining.

- www.gwct.org.uk/scotland/research/balgonie-grey-partridge-recovery-project/

- www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/grey-partridge/

I was exploring with artist friend Kittie Jones who you probably already know of but if you don't please enjoy her work here:

- www.kittiejones.com

We didn't see Grey Partridge but they are hard to spot. We did see a pretty good mix and quantity of birdlife.

Farms can be great for nature, should be, and I believe more and more will be. Ditto gardens, parks, playgrounds, office rooftops...

I look forward to going back to explore around Markinch more. And taking Oren to play with that train.

How to get there:

Trains to Markinch are easy from Edinburgh and Fife in particular.

The station and the castle are only open 1st April to 31st October.

Click 'The East Coast and Fife' timetable and 'Buy Tickets' on ScotRail website.

Many thanks to ScotRail for enabling and supporting my ongoing Scotland by Rail work.

Monday, 1 July 2019

Linlithgow Line Gallery 'Summer Light' exhibition until July 23rd, & online

If you can't get along to the Line Gallery in Linlithgow between now and July 23rd to see Summer Light exhibition by me and five other artists, you can see them all in this blog post.

Linlithgow is my hometown and the Line is the first gallery I ever exhibited with back when I was in my final year at Edinburgh College of Art (14 years ago!). I'm always delighted to be exhibiting with them again.

Until 23rd July at:

The Line Gallery
238 High Street, Linlithgow, EH49 7EF

Tues - Fri 10 - 5
Sat 9 - 5
Sun 1 - 4
Mon CLOSED

Linlithgow is very rail accessible with four fast long trains per hour from Edinburgh and Glasgow.

more exhib info, click here

If you're interested in buying please contact Gail and Elizabet at the Line to check which pieces are still available.

Email all@thelineonline.co.uk or phone +44 (0)1506 670 268.

** all these artworks are mounted but unframed, unless otherwise specified below **