Auction price soars for osprey drawing
SWT’s hands, a pair of osprey decided to come and breed on the shore of the loch.
“It happened that way round and 50 years on, we are all delighted by the presence another breeding pair.”
She added:“Gwyn was looking for a way to use her artistic talents to help us and when she offered to make a drawing for us of any wild animal, we decided there could be no more appropriate subject for her to draw than an osprey.”
The self-taught artist is based in Snowdonia and explained how having not done it since school, returning to drawing in 2015 was her strategy for coping with illness.
Gwyn said: “What began as a form of therapy quickly became an all consuming passion and before long my friends and family were approaching me to ask for portraits of themselves and their pets.
“Thus began a new chapter in my life.
“Through my art I hope to help raise awareness of the plight of some of our most endangered species.
“We tend to overlook the wildlife on our doorstep here in the UK, in favour of more exotic species, so a large part of my portfolio is of British wildlife.”
Gwyn won the Earth Hour Challenge art competition in March this year.
“Ospreys are a bird that’s very close to my heart after seeing one catch a fish at Loch Rannoch, so it has been a great pleasure painting one for the Scottish Wildlife Trust,” she added.
Her signed and mounted pastel of an osprey with a fish dangling mid-air was based on a photo by amateur photographer Adam Caird.
She generously donated it
Gwyn’s ‘Fly Fishing’pastel drawing sold for £360 on eBay to SWT Loch of the Lowes to sell and the work was put on the online auction for a week, ending Sunday, July 14.