6645. Coach and Horses

Misc, Coach and Horses, Bristol, December 2024
Misc, Coach and Horses, Bristol, December 2024

Today I am off to a valley in the Atlas Mountains, and wrote this last night after a very long day doing a lot of walking. So today’s posts will be quick ones like yesterday and might not be very coherent. This is the third piece in a superb collaboration between Sled One, Smak and Misc, whose stunning heron clutching an eel in its bill is wonderful.

Misc, Coach and Horses, Bristol, December 2024
Misc, Coach and Horses, Bristol, December 2024

I don’t know Misc, but believe he painted a couple of pieces on this particular trip to Bristol. The stylised natural history piece is amazing and really captures the struggle between the fish and the bird. I would like to see much more work like this, as it is right up my street.

Fisher

Heron, River Frome, Bristol, June 2023
Heron, River Frome, Bristol, June 2023

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A slow flowing glide

and overcast conditions

perfect for fishing

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by Scooj

Ungraceful

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All neck, legs and wings

the clunkiest of fliers

heron, the fisher

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by Scooj

Three herons

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Natural, graceful

slow wingbeats in unison

perfect formation

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by Scooj

Viscount heron

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Aristocratic

surveyor of his domain

goldfish pond in view

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by Scooj

Heron

 

In its grey coat it

came, eyeing up the neighbours

fishpond, then vanished.

 

by Scooj