Seagull (9)

This seagull was painted from a photograph I took while walking on the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path in 2006. My friend, Ally, and I had just sat down to have a rest when it came and stood very near us and started screeching. We weren’t sure whether it was defending its young or scrounging for food!

This is one of my early paintings and at the time I didn’t have many pastels. I also hadn’t learnt the art of blending colours to make new ones, so the palette is more basic than in my later paintings.