Fen Ditton Gallery is delighted to present the next exhibition in an ongoing series that highlights artists’ responses to the natural world. The Presence of Birds brings together eleven artists and makers whose diverse practices explore the enduring, intimate role of birds within our landscapes, imaginations, and everyday lives.
We are particularly excited to welcome two new artists to the gallery:
Young ceramicist Kate Sampson trained and worked in illustration for many years before turning her hand to ceramics. Now, combining both these practices, Kate focuses on traditional wheel thrown forms in stoneware, earthenware or porcelain, taking inspiration from her surroundings in rural Kent. Her work is heavily influenced by traditional folk art and themes centre around animals and the natural world.
Wynona Legg lives and works in North Norfolk and is a member of the Society of Wildlife Artists. Alongside her artistic practice, she is an ambassador for the endangered Ringed Plover, working with the RSBP to monitor and protect breeding pairs along the Norfolk coastline. Through her practice, she explores a personal and emotional response to these observations and encounters. Wynona will be giving a talk at the gallery about her work in the field and the conservation of plover later in the exhibition (more details and booking here).
Other works include: Engraved jewellery by Malcolm Appleby; slipware pottery by Fitch and McAndrew; printmaking by Sarah Gillespie, Rebecca Jewell and Kittie Jones; tapestry by Roger Law; paintings and drawings by Emerson Mayes and Nik Pollard; sculpture by Celia Smith
Exhibition dates: Saturday 14th March - Sunday 26th April
Special Preview Night: Thursday 12th March, 6 – 8pm (RSVP here)
Weekends 10am – 5pm / weekdays by appointment
Please note: We are closed over Easter weekend (4th / 5th April)
The Presence of Birds: Available works
Swallow (18mm ⌀) SOLD
Swallow (16mm ⌀) SOLD
Owl (19mm ⌀) £72
Dove (16mm ⌀) SOLD
Wood engraving
Edition of 100
Unframed
Image size: 9 x 11cm
Paper size: 18.5 x 26.5cm
Please contact the gallery for all available Andy English prints
These moneyboxes are thrown and then topped with a modelled depiction of rooks settling in tree branches for the night.
h 22cm
Photograph by Shannon Tofts
A chubby, round mug decorated with a slip trailed owl on a black slip background.
8.5cm height
Photograph by Shannon Tofts
Mezzotint engraving
2026
Edition of 25
Plate size: 20 × 14cm
Paper size: 31 × 25cm
Unframed
This work was created during Kittie’s artist residency at Fen Ditton Gallery, October 2025
Soft pastel and coloured pencil
56 x 76cm
Unframed
Framing available upon request
Each image is derived from drawings made in the field. Kittie hand draws each layer before exposing it onto a screen striving to keep the freshness of the hand-drawn mark whilst mixing it with more graphic layers of flat colour.
Screenprint
Edition of 21
38 × 56cm
Unframed
Each image is derived from drawings made in the field. Kittie hand draws each layer before exposing it onto a screen striving to keep the freshness of the hand-drawn mark whilst mixing it with more graphic layers of flat colour.
Screenprint
Edition of 14
56 × 38cm
Unframed
Each image is derived from drawings made in the field. Kittie hand draws each layer before exposing it onto a screen striving to keep the freshness of the hand-drawn mark whilst mixing it with more graphic layers of flat colour.
Screenprint
Edition of 18
56 × 38cm
Unframed
Brand new screenprint from recent trips to Bass Rock. This piece shows the east side of the Rock with the Stevenson Lighthouse
9 Layer Screenprint
Edition of 18
56 × 38cm
This work was made during Kittie Jones’ artist residency at Fen Ditton Gallery (May 2024)
Soft pastel and pencil
56 x 76cm
Unframed
Framing available upon request
From original watercolour ‘Early Morning - Fogg Dam’
143 x 197cm
Acrylic, wool, cotton and assorted yarns sources from Italy, Spain and Japan
6.5cm (w) x 5.5cm x 2cm