Conveying movement and memories on canvas

'Personally I really love his work...To create this book, Michael Warren looked back through his diaries and sketchbooks to recall birding experiences in various parts of Britain and Ireland. He then created more than 60 new paintings to bring those sketches to life. The result is a mixture of rough pencil field sketches and feather perfect watercolours...the decision was made to follow the systematic order, starting with divers and ending with buntings. this approach works, and means that you can logically work your way through the various families...Every picture conveys movement of some kind, on the part of either the bird or its surroundings; a Dipper sits quietly by a rushing stream...his paintings have always tended towards exaggeration and that's what makes them exciting...this is a great book, and if you like paintings that motivate you to grab your binoculars and go out birding, this is definitely one for you.'

Keith Betton   Birdwatch   April 2008

'....In some ways, the book could be described as a bird-artist's field guide.... It is almost impossible to select the painting I would most like to see on my wall.... OK, it's a fair cop, I'm an unashamed fan; but then it is very difficult not to be. Mike is a master of composition and design, but the skill that puts his paintings onto another level is his ability to place the bird naturally into its habitat.... Again, those at Langford Press deserve to have praise heaped upon them for maintaining the high standard they have set with this series of sumptuous volumes. Judging by their latest catalogue, I won't be stuck for things to put on my next Christmas list.'

Dan Powell       British Birds  January 2008

'This fine tome charts most of the species that Michael Warren has encountered in a lifetime's birding in Britain. It ranges from his coloured sketches through to sumptuous, lively, detailed full-page colour composition spreads in watercolour or acrylic. It is a pleasure to see so many previously unpublished paintings in print as well as many personal anecdotes and field sketches of birds.'

                                                             BTO News   Sept-Oct 2007

'Another feast of images. Michael Warren fans will certainly want to add this to their collection.'

                                                                            Birdwatching Magazine    October 2007

 'His paintings combine sharp field observation and birding knowledge with great technique, design and compositional skills. Mike produces pictures that are often dramatic and strikingly coloured, and which evoke exciting moments in the natural world'.

                                                         Birds magazine    August 2007

'showing pencil and coloured crayon drawings from his sketchbook...they are beautifully reproduced'.

Birds Illustrated     Winter 2007

'he shows his command of a range of styles from loose and impressionistic field sketches to accurate illustrations of the birds. His pictures and sketches have a wonderful sense of movement; of rushing water, lapping wave, whirling flocks of birds, running waders. This is a worthy successor to his previous volumes.'

Scottish Bird News    Dec 2007