Yorkshire artist’s new exhibition focuses on wildlife in winter

‘Winter Wildlife’ offers a multi-media exploration into the beauty and strength of animals as they face up to the cold.

The event includes detailed portraits of iconic British wildlife – pheasants proudly patrol snow fields, woodpeckers peck at tree trunks, and hares hunker down in blizzards.

These feature alongside nature documentaries about stoats, foxes and even penguins overcoming extreme conditions.

Mr Fuller said: “When the world freezes over and the landscape turns white it really is beautiful. But it’s also challenging for our wildlife.

“This exhibition celebrates the way, when faced with adversity, animals just get on with it. And in fact, they even seem to have the energy to be quite playful – and even to prepare for the year ahead. I’ve watched hares boxing in blizzards!”

Mr Fuller’s wildlife documentaries regularly feature on BBC1’s The One Show and his films and paintings have earned him more than two million followers on social media.

The artist uses surveillance cameras hidden in his Thixendale garden and the surrounding countryside to study and film animals throughout the year and his wildlife documentaries include rare behaviours – such as stoats burrowing through snow.

Visitors will also be able to watch live CCTV feeds where owls are already beginning to secure their nests for the coming spring.

Mr Fuller, who also travels the globe to film and paint animals in their natural habitats, will also exhibit films and paintings of penguins, recorded after an intrepid journey to the Antarctic regions.

‘Winter Wildlife’ runs daily from 9.30am to 4.30pm weekdays and 10.30am to 4.30pm during weekends at the artist’s gallery in Thixendale until Friday, January 9.

Visit www.robertefuller.com for further information.