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Puffins, Inner Farne
Original sold
Prints available
David travels regularly to the stunning Northumberland coast to paint.
The Farne Islands, a group of rocky islets off the coast of Northumberland, England, are one of the UK’s most important wildlife havens. Managed by the National Trust, these islands attract thousands of visitors each year, primarily for their incredible seabird populations and thriving grey seal colony.
Among the most famous residents of the Farne Islands are the Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica). These charismatic seabirds, with their distinctive orange beaks and clown-like appearance, return to the islands every spring to breed. The Farnes host around 55,000 breeding pairs during peak season, making it one of the largest puffin colonies in the UK. They nest in burrows dug into the soft, grassy terrain, where they lay a single egg and take turns incubating it.
Puffins are excellent divers, using their wings to “fly” underwater in search of small fish like sand eels. Despite their playful appearance, puffins face challenges such as climate change, overfishing, and habitat loss, which threaten their food supply and nesting sites.
Visitors to the Farne Islands can take boat tours from Seahouses, offering close-up views of these incredible birds, along with other seabirds like guillemots, razorbills, and terns, making the islands a true wildlife paradise.
After an mixed media painting by David Stead, this beautiful limited edition print is on deep profile, archival quality canvas. The print is limited to an edition of only 150 and comes with a certificate of authentication
Canvas Print
Dimensions: 76 × 76 cm
Description: Our signed, limited edition canvas prints are produced using only Fine Art Trade Guild approved materials, ensuring a display life in excess of 85 years. We use only the best quality, award winning archival canvas which is OBA FREE, eliminating yellowing. Our canvas is hand-stretched onto 44mm exhibition, laminated pine stretcher bars, kiln dried to 8% or less moisture content to minimise warping of the frame. To enhance your canvas print, we apply a tape to the reverse to hide the visibility of the staples used, which also protects your walls from being scratched. Two coats of varnish are applied to further protect the print from scratches and finger marks. All our canvases are supplied with a hanging kit ready to display, as soon as you receive it. We recommend your canvas should be displayed out of direct sunlight and away from excess heat.
Paper Print
Dimensions: 64 × 64 cm
Description: This print is limited to an edition of only 100 and is signed by David. Our paper prints are printed on Fourdrinier, 350gsm acid-free museum quality paper with a high white finish and a silky smooth surface. The size quoted is the image size and each print has a 50mm border making the paper size 740mm x 740mm
