hadrianwild

Collection of collage characters I made from trash collected from our local roadsides

Collection of my artworks created from macro photographs of urban decay

Collection of artworks created from macro photographs of urban decay

At present I am addicted to taking photographs of the fallen leaves around our garden. As long as the sun is shining then twice a day I am out there at ground level with my camera resting on a little sandbag.

The technique is to lie on the ground and take photographs with the longest telephoto lens you have got...

Macro shots of weathered urban surfaces found along the roadside during a recent cycling trip in Thailand

This was a challenge that kind of crept up on us but left me wanting to go back for more. Every year, a friend and I go cycling for up to a week somewhere in Thailand during the cool season.

This was an experiment to see what I could come up with from a single leaf shape and a single photograph. The maple leaf was drawn as a vector shape in Illustrator and the photograph was a close-up of

An illustration of a barred owlet briefly hanging upside down having just snatched a grasshopper on a twig - as seen in my garden recently

A collage-illustration of a robin that happens to look quite Christmassy

A digital collage of leaves in the style of a gelliplate print

My illustration of a family of hoopoes in our garden with paddy-fields and sugar-palm trees beyond

My illustration of a tiny wren trying to feed an enormous cuckoo chick

The only time I have seen spotted owlets in our garden was during an eruption of flying termites. This usually happens just after the first rain of the rainy season. It is spectacular with thousands of

My illustration of a magpie robin with the discarded tail of a gecko

An illustration of the large-tailed nightjar which I am delighted to have sharing my garden.

I have always been inspired by these beasts. Great hulking, hairy tanks of muscle with solid curving horns and a willingness to butt heads at full sprinting speed. They are perhaps not as large as they

I am not sure why I thought it would be fun to illustrate a bait ball. Putting together all those fish made my head hurt! Apart from that I did enjoy putting all the separate bits and animals into a

A self-portrait of what occupies my mind whilst gardening. The iconic hooded cobra is in our genes. Children may need to be taught how to react on meeting one or to be aware of the risk of encounters,

My illustration of a puffin with its surprising catch!