‘An Admiration…that should be the collective noun for gallery visitors to Colin See-Paynton’s Of a Feather exhibition, for this has been an extraordinary enterprise. The work has drawn on many years of patient and exultant observation, the accumulation of knowledge that allows the imagination to be accurate in the mind’s eye.  Not since Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) have both literary and pictorial aspects been found conjoined in the one talent as in this project, where Colin See-Paynton has both written about and made the plates for an illustrated lexicon of the collective nouns for birds.’
David Alston

‘Colin See-Paynton has introduced yet another vision to the rich tradition of wood engraving. His delight in the lines of a bird so elegantly inscribed by the cut of his graver, his skill in varying texture even though he only has black and white with which to do so, his palpable pleasure in composing his subjects into joyous designs have brought something new to the portrayal of birds.  It is a true privilege to provide these few words to introduce them.’
Sir David Attenborough

‘Colin See-Paynton not only inherits the skills and vision of earlier artists’, (Thomas Bewick, Charles Tunnicliffe, Gertrude Hermes), but adds the brilliance of his design and his mastery of the movement of birds, animals and fish.  It may be that it is difficult for a wood engraver, because of the discipline of his art, to achieve an element of the aesthetic, but when he does so, he produces an object of rare beauty, and many engravings by Colin See-Paynton are very beautiful indeed.’
Sir Kyffin Williams