Hare’s Breath’ is one of my early watercolours, when I was beginning to have the confidence to develop my own style.

When I returned to the North East to live I was delighted to find my opinion of the industrial landscape change as a direct result of visiting RSPB’s flagship centre at Saltholme, Teesside.  I now know this landscape provides a good home for many birds, insects and mammals.

My camera couldn’t get a close enough shot of their hares, but my friend Hilary Chambers came to the rescue. I wasn’t brave enough to include that landscape in this, my first hare, substituting that for a pastoral background.  I rectified this in my later hare `Winning’.