Fine feathers make fine birds .......

....... and pictures too!

 

 

Chris Maynard, from Olympia in Washington, USA,

feather artist extraordinaire, is the ultimate upcycler

although some would argue that his plumes were equally

as beautiful first time around when modelled

by their original owners.

 

 

Chris is not some clandestine pheasant plucker

(careful how you say that) who collects his raw materials

at dead of night in some leafy glade.

 

No!  All his wonderfully exotic feathers come from

zoos and aviaries after the moult when the birds are glad

to see the back of them I suspect.  I wonder if they get

all itchy before they drop out?  Just another of those questions

to which I shall probably never get an answer, but I bet they do!
 

Even more fiddly than cross stitch.

 

 All of Chris' little masterpieces are displayed in hand crafted

shadow boxes (deep frames Alice dear).  But way before he

gets to that stage, using a small scalpel as his primary tool,

Chris meticulously fashions his images creating beautiful works

of art from discarded plumes.

 

 

He somehow manages to give each feather a new role to

play in centre stage of his canvases to the external delight of

his audience of rapturous onlookers.

 

 

If you want to onlook for yourself then click and go on the link below:

 

http://www.featherfolio.com/

La plume de ma tante est maintenant dans
le shadow box de Chris Maynard!