Of a Feather - Colin See-Paynton

Colin See-Paynton is a Fellow of the Royal Cambrian Academy, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and a member of the Society of Wood Engravers.  He is widely regarded as the leading exponent of wood engraving in the United Kingdom and his work is represented in many private and public collections including the V & A, The Ashmolean Museum, The National Library of Wales and The National Museum and Galleries of Wales.Each one of the wood engravings in this exhibition has been made in the space of roughly 4 years and takes us through the alphabet from ‘Abandonment of Cuckoos’ through ‘Gaggle of Geese’, ‘Tiding of Magpies’ to ‘Zephyr of Longtailed Titmice’. A complete and wonderfully poetic alphabet of collective nouns that together with Colin See-Paynton’s text will be published as the book 'Of a Feather – An Avian Alphabet' by the Gregynog Press in 2008.