“This collection is, I think, unique in showing exclusively an entire ensemble of newly created wood engravings.  It had been a cherished and enduring dream that I might one day have the wherewithal and the time to produce a thematic series of prints, a body of fresh new engravings which I could steadily assemble and eventually publish in totum preferably in the form of a beautifully made book: but further I wanted to create images that would be strong enough also to justify their presentation in an exhibition.  This is that exhibition, Of a Feather and it represents the realisation of that long held dream.”
Colin See-Paynton
September 2007

Each one of the wood engravings in this exhibition has been made in the space of roughly four years and takes us through the alphabet from ‘Abandonment of Cuckoos’ through ‘Gaggle of Geese’, ‘Tiding of Magpies’ to ‘Zephyr of Longtailed Titmice’. A complete and wonderfully poetic alphabet of collective nouns that together with Colin See-Paynton’s text will be published as the book Of a Feather – An Avian Alphabet by the Gregynog Press in 2008.