The Birds by Blandine Anderson
Acrylic & oil on canvas
40 x 40 x 3.5cm
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The Birds The painting shows a much-simplified ariel view of Village Bay on the island of Hiort, St. Kilda. The most common sea birds on the archipelago are gannets, puffins and fulmars. The people of the islands relied heavily on these birds and their eggs for their food, which were gathered from the cliffs and stored for the winter in stone cleits. They used feathers for bedding, fulmar oil for lighting and made their shoes from gannet-skins.