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Subsidence at Verdon Parr, Northwich,Cheshire, England

I like how you draw parrot very much :))))))))

Drawing Parrot is so fun because I can just throw colors at him and see what sticks

Also I really really really like drawing birds and wings

Martin Parr’s father, Donald, was not just a keen birdwatcher; he also wrote the definitive avifauna of his home county, Birds in Surrey, 1900-1970. Published in 1972, it inspired the 12-year-old me to explore the birding hotspots around my suburban home, and helped shape my lifelong passion for birds and birding. I never managed to be any good at photography, though. Stephen Moss With my wife…

Exhibition of the week To Improvise a MountainPainter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye portrays fictional people in made-up settings. Where does she get her haunting ideas? Here she reveals her inspirations from Walter Sickert to Bas Jan Ader. MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, until 25 January Also showing The SleepersHelen Cammock, Tracey Emin and others explore what it is to sleep, and not to be able to sleep.…

The death of Martin Parr, the photographer whose work chronicled the rituals and customs of British life, was front-page news in France and his life and work were celebrated as far afield as the US and Japan. If his native England had to shake off concerns about the role of class in Parr’s satirical gaze before it could fully embrace him, countries like France have long revered the Epsom-born…