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Waking Hare

Waking Hare

By Grenville Moore

 

Acrylic on cradled board

Original artwork

Unframed

Image size: H: 30cm x W: 50cm x 3.5cm

 

How's this for stunning wildlife art?

 

Painted this autumn by an artist who loves animals and, especially, loves hares. It's based on a photograph by naturalist photographer, Frances Crickmore.

 

We get the feeling that the sleepy hare has just looked over his shoulder and caught a glimpse of us, with a wary glint in his eye.

 

Grenville perfectly captures the different fur textures of his face, ears and shoulders and the wonderful expressiveness of his regard. 

  • ABOUT GRENVILLE MOORE

    Grenville is an accomplished and distinctive painter working from his idyllic garden studio in a small village on the Warwickshire/Oxfordshire border.

     

    After many years when illustration, design and cartoon strips were his hobby, he became a specialist decorator and muralist and completed assignments and commissions in homes throughout the Cotswolds and London. He also wrote and illustrated articles for two national publications. Among his projects were a large painted vase for the Ralph Lauren store in Barcelona and various items of painted furniture.

     

    These decorative and interior design skills remain with him - and very much on show - in his paintings of wild animals, many of which are enhanced and embellished with backgrounds of rich tapestry motifs, Arcadian glades and medieval-style foliage. His love of heraldry also shines through in clever motifs and touches of symbolism.

     

    A trip to Kenya first sparked his enchantment with wild animals and birds and inspired his current, very popular work which specialises in dra