SARAH JANE CONKLIN FINE ART
  • Home
  • Paintings
    • Birds Nest Gallery >
      • Made in the Maritimes
    • Galleries
    • Water Paintings
    • Winter Scenes
    • Nova Scotian Landscapes
    • Feature Painting
    • Commissions
    • Daisies
  • Books
    • What's in Flora's Shoebox?
    • Nesting Grounds
    • Flying colours
    • A Path to Somewhere
    • Come Closer, Look Again
    • Freeda's Beads of Joy
    • Flying Colours
    • Poems
  • Shop Merch
  • About
    • Current and up-coming exhibits
    • Newsletter Sign Up
  • Contact
  • Blog

BLOG

Nesting Grounds...what's inside?

7/11/2019

0 Comments

 
FULL PREVIEW HERE

Did you know that Robins sometimes use string to build their nests? Or that chickadees can lay up to 9 eggs?

Like most authors, I wrote about something that interests me. Nesting Grounds is about birds and bird's nests. Furthermore, it was a throw back to my childhood. I would be perched in my Dad’s crossed legs - what he affectionately referred to as ‘the Bird’s Nest’- and watch the birds in our garden.
 

For Nesting Grounds, 20 luminous oil paintings depicting 10 familiar birds nesting were created. Each bird has 2 devoted paintings: The female in her nest; and the nest with eggs. Additionally, the clutches in each nest increases incrementally from one to ten - the Sparrow having one egg up to the Wood Duck having ten. A 4-line verse accompanies each image describing the nesting ground unique to each bird. This artistically rendered book is ideal for artists and birders of all ages, and is a wonderful introduction to the nesting grounds of common birds. Birds featured in Nesting Grounds: Sparrow, Hummingbird, Robin, Cardinal, Plover, Goldfinch, Snow Bunting, Nuthatch, Chickadee, Wood Duck.

The on-line version is 8.5x8.5, and is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Chapters/Indigo. A signed copy is available on request.

Please email me sarahjaneconklin@gmail.com.



Picture
Picture
On sandy shores - under the dunes,
The speckled eggs all rest.
On top of rocks and broken shells,
The Plover sets her nest.
Picture
Picture
The Wood Duck likes a nesting box,
To build her sheltered nest.
Soft feathers form a downy mat,
She's plucked from her own breast.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Sarah Jane Conklin. Visual artist living in Nova Scotia.

    Picture


    Archives

    November 2020
    June 2020
    March 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    May 2019
    February 2017
    January 2017
    April 2016
    March 2016
    November 2014
    October 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    August 2013


    Picture

      CONTACT ME

    Submit
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • Paintings
    • Birds Nest Gallery >
      • Made in the Maritimes
    • Galleries
    • Water Paintings
    • Winter Scenes
    • Nova Scotian Landscapes
    • Feature Painting
    • Commissions
    • Daisies
  • Books
    • What's in Flora's Shoebox?
    • Nesting Grounds
    • Flying colours
    • A Path to Somewhere
    • Come Closer, Look Again
    • Freeda's Beads of Joy
    • Flying Colours
    • Poems
  • Shop Merch
  • About
    • Current and up-coming exhibits
    • Newsletter Sign Up
  • Contact
  • Blog