Byron Johnson
Starlings
Starlings
Several hundred winter evenings have been spent during the past ten years observing and documenting the habits of a particular roost where northern European starlings flee south from the frozen arctic climes for shelter and, primarily, winter food sources from the warmer (generally unfrozen) land of surrounding Cornish farms, where they also try their utmost to scavenge from the farmers’ animal feed stores too.
The starlings present a mesmerizing spectacle of murmuration when the conditions on any given evening prompt their instinct for doing so. Such dynamic displays offer a marvellous reward for the hours of painstaking time watching and patiently waiting evening after evening; for such murmurations are never assured.
From this abundant photographic archive, a selection of limited edition photographic prints will be available to purchase. Please enquire via the email address on the ‘Contact’ page.
Printmaking
‘5.37pm’, illustrated on the right is from a (sold out) edition of woodblock and relief prints made jointly by Sally Byron-Johnson and Merlyn Chesterman RE who are currently working together on new woodblock/relief print editions from other photographs out of this comprehensive study, including ‘March 7th’ at the foot of this page.
Further art and publishing projects will be forthcoming.
‘March 7th’, woodblock and relief print, 90cm x 60cm; edition of 60, by Sally Byron-Johnson and Merlyn Chesterman RE.
All photographs on this page are displayed with greatly reduced resolution for the purposes of website publishing, and for the avoidance of copyright infringement.