The Living Birds of Eric Ennion

Very Good used hardcover with dust jacket. Tight binding. Bumped corners.  DJ is slightly creased with small tear, and price clipped.

Eric Ennion was a unique genius of British wildlife painting.  A Cambridgeshire doctor with a passion for nature, he gave up medicine to pioneer Field Study Centres and to write, to broadcast, and above all to draw and paint the birds he knew with a first-hand experience seldom equaled by any artist. 

This book shows a selection of the beautiful studies and field sketches kept by Ennion as references for his larger paintings, as well as illustrations and descriptive extracts from some of his articles and books.  He always hoped that people would learn to see and enjoy birds as they really are, rather than as artists' book-plates;  now, through his own eyes and brush, his is just what we are able to do.

Includes color drawings, black-and-white drawings, pencil sketches, watercolor paintings.