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Pair of Wheatears Eastern White Pine 35 x 18 x 12cm Footnote: The Wheatears are regular Summer visitors to Kerry in Ireland where Stephen spends his Summer holidays. Stephen Henderson grew up in artistic surroundings, as the youngest of four children. He is the son of renowned photographer and pop-artist Nigel Henderson. His mother Judith was raised in and around the infamous Bloomsbury Group, as a niece of Virginia Woolf. The family moved to the East Essex coast in the 1950s, with Stephen being born shortly afterwards in 1956. Stephen’s teenage years were spent shooting and fishing on the marshes, where he developed a keen eye for the movements and habits of wildfowl and fish. Even today, the workshop and studio at his family home look out across those very same marshes, providing a constant source of inspiration.He has developed his own painting techniques over time, combining washes of emulsion paints with stained and clear waxes. Together with delicate highlights of silver leaf, these help to create a subtle approximation of scales and feathers.

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