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The Natural Eye
Mall Galleries, London SW1
4 stars
THIS Society of Wildlife Artists annual exhibition brings together the very best of current practitioners’ work and what a selection it is.
Gone are the days of countryside kitsch, sentimentality and shoddy observation. These are artists who know their countryside and have an assured technical command of their particular medium.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, 90 per cent of the works here are of birds. Their sheer variety, colours and shapes are an obvious attraction to artists, offering innumerable opportunities to play around with shapes, patterns and colour and on show are oils, watercolours, woodcuts, prints, sculptures and drawings.
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