2025
Anya Simmons is a professional artist based in Kineton, Warwickshire. She was born in 1969 in Uganda and moved to Nairobi, Kenya in 1972. She lived in Africa for the first 14 years of her life and then moved to the UK. She studied a BEd (Hons) teaching degree with art and design and enjoyed a successful career as a primary school teacher for many years. She then went on to pursue her passion and love for art. Simmons held her first solo exhibition in Walton Village in 2005 and was overwhelmed by the response. She has continued to develop her own expressive and individual style and exhibits in various galleries throughout the UK, holding regular exhibitions and events during the year. Simmons’s work is profoundly influenced by beautiful coastal landscapes, quirky harbors and the ever-changing countryside of Great Britain. She enjoys working with various mediums creating an exciting blend of textures, shapes and vibrant colors. She also continuously experiments with the effects that can be created using gesso, acrylic, acrylic inks and a variety of mark-making materials. The depth of color, movement and versatility that can be achieved using these elements excites her. She gets great pleasure from examining the form, colors, light and texture within our diverse landscape and is repeatedly striving to capture this through her work.
Woodpecker-Woody Love, Over the Moon, Bird, Nature, Animals, Original painting
By Anya Simmons
Located in Deddington, GB
We are so blessed with such a variety of beautiful bird species within the UK. I feel inspired and 'Over The Moon' with joy, watching them and listening to their little bird songs ea...
Mixed Media, Board
Magpies Love 3, Over the Moon, Bird, Nature, Animals, Original painting
By Anya Simmons
Located in Deddington, GB
We are so blessed with such a variety of beautiful bird species within the UK. I feel inspired and 'Over The Moon' with joy, watching them and listening to their quirky chatter. Thes...
Mixed Media, Board
Little Blue Tit 4 and Little Kingfisher, Over The Moon Diptych, Birds
By Anya Simmons
Located in Deddington, GB
This is a diptych of a new series - Over The Moon with Little British Birds. This Diptych include Little Kingfisher, Over The Moon and Little Blue Tit 4, Over The Moon, We are so bl...
Gold Leaf
Guillemot & Puffin Fluffin, Over the Moon, Diptych, Bird, Nature, Animals
By Anya Simmons
Located in Deddington, GB
New series - over the moon with our beautiful coastal birds. Over the Moon with Little Guillemot, a gorgeous little seabird belonging to the Auk family. Guillemot - Over the Moon is ...
Mixed Media, Board
Great Tits Love, Over the Moon, Original painting, nature, animal
By Anya Simmons
Located in Deddington, GB
Great Tits Love, Over the Moon From the Series: Over The Moon with little British Birds. Two Great Tits meet on a snowy rise, wings lifted in a bright, playful connection. Their yell...
Mixed Media, Board
Guillemot, Over the Moon, Bird, Nature, Animals, Original painting
By Anya Simmons
Located in Deddington, GB
New series - over the moon with our beautiful coastal birds. Over the Moon with Little Guillemot, a gorgeous little seabird belonging to the Auk family. Guillemot - Over the Moon is ...
Mixed Media, Board
"Slim Pickings", Contemporary, Bird, Woodpecker, Birch, Yellow, Mixed Media
By Anne Sargent Walker
Located in Franklin, MA
Anne Sargent Walker’s “Slim Pickings” is a 12 x 12 x 1 inch painting on wood panel in oil and acrylic and birch bark. Against a dark yellow sky a black and white Downy Woodpecker cli...
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Spotted Woodpecker - 21st Century Contemporary Acrylic Painting of a Bird
By Maikel van Emmerik
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Maikel van Emmerik Spotted Woodpecker 24 x 18 cm ( framed included in price 28 x 22 cm) Acrylic paint on canvas Maikel van Emmerik is a Dutch wildlife painter whose art reveals a pr...
Canvas, Acrylic
English 20th century study of a woodpecker bird
By James Williamson-Bell
Located in Woodbury, CT
James Williamson-Bell was a respected wildlife artist based in Newcastle and won several medals at the Paris Salon for his bird paintings. He was stro...
Gouache
Diving Woodpeckers, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Emil Morhardt captures a group of acorn woodpeckers diving together from a tree. “They really do this,†says Emil. He spends hours with his lens trained on the birds as they argue loudly among themselves until finally taking a jump. The woodpeckers are painted on a thick layer of absorbent ground, giving them a slightly three-dimensional appearance against the gray-stained canvas.
About the Artist
Emil Morhardt is an acrylic painter from Santa Barbara, California who expresses his passion for birds through realistic acrylic paintings. He paints at home in a studio room that has large windows and a north-facing view of the mountains. He observes the animals from this window, watching roadrunners, foxes, bobcats, deer, and coyote run by. Surrounded by this wildlife, Emil paints bird portraits reminiscent of those by artist John James Audubon. He bases his paintings off hundreds of photographs he takes of birds in the wild and at wildlife recovery centers. Emil captures the freedom and inquisitiveness that birds display in the natural world. Before painting birds, he painted landscapes of San Francisco and the Eastern Sierra. Emil was raised in the high desert of California and learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists...
Acrylic
Woodpecker Bird Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
By Artyom Abrahamyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
379 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2024 Style: Classic Art Title: Woodpecker Size: 12 x 16 in...
Paper, Watercolor
Mozart's Starling - Contemporary semi abstract painting birds
By Christopher Rainham
Located in London, GB
Christopher Rainham has always been inspired by the natural world and more specifically an experience of the natural world. He is inspired by the way flora and fauna are woven into l...
Acrylic, Board
