Original artwork description:

Meet Bessie!
One of a small concentration of Kingfishers who is currently living at my house, but who really wants to come to live at yours!
She is built onto plywood and has a three dimensional front wing and body. I used iridescent blue glass, milliefiori and glass rods.
In the valley below the hill where I live there is a small village with a leat running along the edge of the fields and opposite a row of old and pretty cottages. There are often ducks on the leat and once I saw a very raggedy looking heron trying to catch a fish, but it always feels as if I have experienced a split second of magic when I catch a bright blue iridescent flash out of the corner of my eye.
Sizes are approx 17-21cm beak to tail and wings are approx 13-15 cm long.
Ready to hang for indoor display only.

Materials used:

plywood, wire, cement mixtures, polystyrene, glass tiles, milliefiori, glass rods, hand gilded metal leaf glass

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