Behold Susan Oglivy's wonderful paintings of bird nests
An interview with her about how she started the project: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/26/nests-susan-ogilvy-illustrations-bird-interview
tl;dr -- she found a nest while cleaning up the backyard, was astounded by its architectural complexity, and she was off to the races
Here's the book collecting all her paintings: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/nests-9780241481714
Aha, you are making me click the "buy" button today
4/5: Susan Ogilvy has been a botanical illustrator for the past thirty years and has exhibited around the world. But it was only recently that she has begun painting nests. One day whilst tidying up her garden she came across a strangely shaped lump of vegetation under a tree. It was only after she had brought it inside and it had dried out that she realised that it was a chaffinch nest. And it was utterly beautiful. This soon became an obsession, and she began to collect nests that had been abandoned or friends would find them for her, in particular, Deon who works for the British Trust for Or...
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