Bird Impressions: A Personal View of Birds

Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. First edition. Foreword by Robert Gillmor.

Darren Rees has a passion for painting and a passion for birds. Bird Impressions is his first solo book and is a collection of over ninety superb watercolours. These are based on his observations in the field and are accompanied by lively sketches and vivid captions that evoke beautifully these encounters with birds in Wales. The paintings are taken from Anglesey, Skomer, Bardsey, and Mid-Wales, and portray a wonderful variety of birds with winter ducks, summer seabirds, and migrant rarities.

This young artist's work has attracted much critical acclaim and many awards, and his style is refreshing departure from the more conventional norms of wildlife art. Using the medium of watercolours with a bold yet traditional technique he captures so effectively the light, the form, and the essence of birds. His impressions are blocks of colour and strokes of paint arranged to convey life. 

Darren Rees is now recognised as one of the country's leading bird artists and Bird Impressions brings his paintings to the wider audience they so richly deserve. The book is surely a treasure for both lovers of birds and lovers of art.