www.avondalegallery.com Original wildlife, birds of prey, angling, portraiture, landscape limited edition fine art and photography Trevor Harrop, Passion for Angling, Chris Yates
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Birds of Prey drawings and artwork by artist trevoer Harrop, fine art and limited edition prints for sale and special commissions undertaken.
Ideal for Christmas, Birthday gifts. Also included are Fine Art photographic prints and angling prints of brown trout carp barble and many others.
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Having never received any formal
training, and never having attended
art college or any kind of art
based institution, I am completely
self taught. However, I wouldn1t
quite put it as being taught.
I rather refer to my ability
and style of art as having evolved.
It started with me being given
a set of oil paints and a couple
of boards, as a gift when I
was a teenager, and it quickly
went from there. I was soon
being commissioned to paint
portraits and pets and landscapes
for friends and relatives. Then
for a while the whole art thing
took a back seat as all my time
was taken up with my career
in design and printing in London,
which I left in 1999 and moved
to Hampshire to concentrate
on my art. I have spent time
working in all kinds of mediums,
from watercolour, producing
some very detailed wildlife
paintings and occasional oil
paintings, but very quickly,
the most popular medium has
become the graphite studies,
or pencil drawings to you and
me. This medium has a character
and appeal all its own. It seems
to have something the others
do not. Black and white illustrations
and art seem to go through phases
of popularity, but these pencil
works seem to remain as popular
as they have always been, if
not more so. I regard myself
as being blighted, rather than
gifted, with a tiresome attention
to detail. But, it is this that
seems to be one of the main
talking points of the general
viewer and collector alike regarding
my art. I like to think that,
if not pointed out, new discoveries
will continue to be made long
after the initial viewing, such
as a reflection in an eye, a
crooked claw, a chewed finger
nail, a shadow or a highlight.
The desire to achieve visual
accuracy of detail to a level
somewhat rarely seen in a work
or art has intensified as time
has passed, with it now being
a determination of mine to try
to include every tiny spot and
hair and glint of eye I can
possibly achieve; and it is
this that is the attraction
for collectors, be it fur, feather,
smoothness of skin tone, life-like
accuracy, or simply the obvious
effort expended in a works creation.
If I am not happy with it, it
will not be seen by anyone.
On this web site I have included
a wide variety of subject matter,
form birds or prey, including
owls, eagles, hawks and falcons;
a range of angling images, with
trout, pike, barbel, dace, salmon
and even bullheads, many of
which have been taken from a
book I illustrated, designed
and produced. I have also included
many of the portraits I have,
over the years, been commissioned
to produce, and working dogs,
which, it has to be said, would
also be considered as portraits.
This, I guess, would also apply
to some of the birds of prey,
many of which were commissioned
by their owners. There are plans
to include an exclusive range
of works or art. Currently,
the site has limited and open
edition print runs of all the
subjects. And while the originals
are also available, it is the
intention to produce works of
art that will not be printed
or reproduced in any way, giving
them a unique exclusivity. Original
art work is quite costly, but
I can assure the collector that,
comparatively speaking, the
purchaser certainly gets value
for money. In addition to the
subjects already available on
the site, there are also plans
to increase the diversity of
subject matter; and works of
African wildlife; big cats,
cheetahs, lions and so on; equine,
be it portraits of pet horses
or New Forest ponies; photographic,
with stunning images of the
most breath-taking dawns, landscapes
and sunsets imaginable, from
some of the people most adept
at their capture, like Chris
Yates and Terry Lampard. Chris
Yates appeared in the television
program, shown on BBC, A Passion
for Angling1 filmed by Hugh
Miles, and Terry Lampard is
appearing in the new series
currently being filmed by Hugh
entitled ?Catching the Impossible1
which features Martin Bowler
and friends. All in all, there
is plenty for everyone here,
from the art connoisseur, to
the person wanting to fill a
gap on the wall with a nice
pretty picture.