RICHARD SWANN ART

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Exhibit C

Exhibit D

Consider exhibit A.  Observe the scratch down the middle, inscribed by a rooster which walked along a row of paintings lined up at the end of a day’s plein-airing with the BDAG at a farm, stopping at mine and delivering a mighty headbutt to express its disapproval.

Consider exhibit B.  Another Ruskin of the bird world has delivered its verdict upon my oeuvre.  I was sat under a willow tree at the time (exhibit C), not the easiest thing to perch on so it must have taken considerable trouble to pass comment.

Exhibit D is the defiantly finished sketch.  You may now unleash your inner critic by observing that it looked better with the avian addition and I should have left it.