Robert E Fuller: In my own words | Early life
Early years I was born in 1972, and moved at the age of two to Great Givendale in East Yorkshire, not far from where I still live today. My father,...
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Robert E Fuller: In my own words | Early life
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TV Appearance!
If you missed us on Countryfile this Sunday then click here. You have to scroll to the end of the programme - I was the last feature. But it is...
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BBC Countryfile Feature Me!
I've edited down the Countryfile feature so now if you click on the arrow you just get the section with me in it!!!
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Adders in Allerthorpe
Whilst watching adders on Allerthorpe Common recently, I discovered that they eat lizards.Click here to read about my encounter in the Ryedale Gazette & Herald.
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Technology
I don't pretend to be overly keen on computers and much prefer to leave the day to day running of the business to my wife Victoria whilst I go out...
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Originals Catalogue
your browser does not support IFRAMEsMy exhibition starts on Saturday (4th June), so I thought you might like to have a sneak preview of the originals that are going to...
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Exhibition starts tomorrow
I'm just about ready for my exhibition which opens tomorrow. I finished this original yesterday. It was taken from my studies of a little owl family just down the road...
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Wildlife Roundup
It's still a bit soon to be offering an overview of the year but when The Yorkshire Post asked me to give them a round up of my wildlife watching...
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Paintings Going Like Hotcakes!
So far my summer exhibition is doing really well!I've sold seven original paintings in the first week! This barn owl is going to Australia straight after the exhibition is over...
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Puffin Walks, Photography Talks and Summer Styling
The events we laid on during the exhibition this year have been a great success. The talk last week by landscape photographer Joe Cornish was particularly fascinating and the gallery...
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How will you treat the king of your jungle on Father's Day?
If you haven't bought your Dad anything for father's day how about a greeting card featuring the king of the jungle combined with a walk to look for owls on...
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Blackbirds Fledge
We had a family of blackbirds nesting just above the front door to the gallery during the exhibition. They didn't seem to mind all the comings and goings - and...
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Tawny Owl in Flight
I've started to experiment with a stroboscopic flash recently. It fires off a rapid series of flashes so that you can record multiple images of a moving subject in a...
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Wolds Secret Orchids
The orchids are out on the Yorkshire Wolds now. I photographed these alongside the very busy A166. Hundreds of people drive past them every day. I wonder if they give...
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Excited Badger Cub
Watch this very sweet badger cub setting off for his evening outing. It is so funny seeing him run round and round in circles with sheer excitment.I videoed him from...
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Wildlife Watching with The Press
I took a journalist from The Press out wildlife watching with me and he enjoyed himself so much he has written a very complimentary article in Wednesday's edition all about...
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Owl Safaris
The owl safaris I held this summer have been a great success.Originally meant to complement my summer exhibition I had so much demand that I ended up doing five safaris...
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Kingfishers on Road to Recovery
Kingfisher populations were among the most serious casualties of last winter's bitter snows.As ponds and streams froze over there were reports that some populations tried to relocate to the coast,...
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Hare Abundant
For an animal in decline, there seems to be a lot of hares about on the Yorkshire Wolds at the moment.
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Serengeti Highway
I'm very worried about the plans for a road across the Serengeti. It looks as though it will slice straight across the migration route. Click here to read more about...
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Regent's Park still an oasis of calm
My article for the Gazette & Herald this month was on my visit to Regent's Park to see the famous heronry http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/features/columnists/9175548.Artist_makes_city_trip_to_visit_a_wild_resident/ what an oasis of calm this photo is...
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Shooting Season Begins
The shooting season opens this week for red grouse. It's not a sport I take part in but I accept that the grouse we see on the moors are only...
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A family of kestrels at Fotherdale
A pair of kestrels set up home in my garden this summer! They perservered despite losing their first brood to a carrion crow and went on to raise .
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Badger Painting Sold
I've sold one of my paintings of a badger! I chose to use a combination of pencil and acrylic paints to bring out the texture of the badger's fur.Pencil is...
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Celebrating the eradication of rats from South Georgia with Princess Anne
I am heading off to the House of Lords tonight for a special ceremony to mark the sucess of the the first phase in a massive campaign to eradicate rats...
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Early Morning Leopard
We came across this male leopard early one morning. There was a dead wildebeest nearby, so he had clearly made a kill in the night.
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Book a Walk on the Wild Side
Book now if you want a place on one of the wildlife events taking place during my Winter Exhibition. Choose from daytime walks to see short-eared owls, red kites, and...
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Winter Exhibition
My Winter Exhibition opens on October 29th and you are all invited of course! I've been putting the finishing touches to a new series of paintings of red kites to...
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Bee Keeping is Over
My wife Victoria and I have kept bees for a few years now and last year we had almost 100lbs of honey from our hive. But last week my bee-keeping...
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New Prints and Cards Now Available
I have four new limited edition prints and two new Christmas cards now available. They include the limited edition collection taken from my latest original paintings of a red kite...
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Red Kite Painting Finished
I've just finished this painting of two red kites engaged in an aerial combat - good job too because the exhibition opens on October 29th! I used acrylics this time...
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Winter Migrants
Wasn't it exciting to see Spurn Point on Autumn Watch?The east coast is such a fantastic place to watch migrating birds as some arrive and others leave our shores to...
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Great Feedback
I'm really chuffed. I got a really nice email last night from a customer who ordered the first red kite at deepdale print."I opened it and cried for there was...
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Just the Job Lad
It's amazing who lives on your doorstep isn't it? This guy, Mike Pannett, lives in the next village along from me and is a former wildlife police officer turned author....
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Documentary on a wildlife artist - me!
Some very nice students from York University did this short documentary on me. I've been struggling to get it on You Tube (and then onto this blog) for some reason....
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Frozen Planet
I really enjoyed watching BBC's frozen planet last night. It reminded me of when I went to Antarctica in 2009 and painted these gorgeous King Penguins. I called this painting...
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All set for the exhibition!
Just put the finishing touches to this cheetah and cubs original painting. I haven't painted a cheetah before so this oil painting is a first! It's just in time as...
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Exhibition Success!
It's been a great opening weekend to my Winter Exhibition - no thanks in part to the four page spread devoted to it in the Yorkshire Post! Click here to...
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A New Arrival
Our daughter Ruby Wren Fuller was born yesterday, a healthy 8.4lbs. A sister for Lily. And already very patient. She waited until the opening weekend of the exhibition was over,...
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Exhibition Sales
I've sold four out of the six new pictures that I painted for the exhibition. The red kite paintings are still to go, however.
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Bonfire Fun
Everyone always worries about their pets on bonfire night, but spare a thought for the wildlife living near you. We have our red kite walk taking place this afternoon between...
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Otter hunt
Visitors on our safari through Tophill Low wildlife reserve had a superb day on Sunday. They saw an otter hunting for duck. Otter are so diffiuclt to get close to....
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Sold Out!
Sold the last edition of this print of my painting, Goldfinch on Thistle, today. That's the 850th of an 850 print run. I'll miss seeing it in the gallery, it's...
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Canvassing Customers
A customer asked us to put this image of my painting of leopard cubs on a canvas. We blew it right up to ... It got me thinking. What do...
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Raffle Winner
This is Mr & Mrs Watkins who won this picture of Hare Today Gone Tomorrow in our exhibition raffle. Mr Watkins had been having a bad week when he got...
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Fern's Girl
We are building a new studio where the aviary in which I used to keep my pet barn owl, Fern, was. . The work hasn't gone unnoticed. This owl used to visit Fern...
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Time to Buy Your Christmas Cards
There's still time to buy your Christmas cards online, but hurry up because we can't guarantee we'll get them to you by post after December 21st. Here are a few from...
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P-p-p pick on someone your own size!
Beaches in South Georgia can get a little crowded at times. During my trip to Antarctica I witnessed an incident of 'beach rage' in which a penguin slapped an elephant seal with...
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Will Hockney Trail stop at Fotherdale?
I read in the papers this week that David Hockney, the godfather of modern art, is to endorse a new tourist trail to the sites from which he painted his...
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From gravel pits to wildlife haven.
Congratulations to the North Cave Wetlands centre which has won an award for transforming old sand and gravel quarries into a magnificent wetland area. I saw avocets like the ones...
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