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Birds of a feather

HIS drawings and paintings capture birds in the wildest of wild habitat, and it is drawing from life that won Tim Wootton the Birdwatch/Swarovski Artist of the Year 2011 Award.

The Orkney-based artist could not be clearer that it is the experience of observing nature at first hand that led to him winning one of the world's top wildlife art prizes at the Society of Wildlife Artists' (SWLA) annual exhibition.