Carry Akroyd

Carry Akroyd is a painter and printmaker living in Northamptonshire. Landscape is her usual subject, and as a bird-noticer, they usually fly into the pictures. Accidentally becoming an illustrator, Carry has made both black and white and colour illustrations for poetry and natural history books, as well as many book jackets. She has also published two books of her own work. John McEwen was born in Berwickshire, pink-footed goose country, in 1942. John has been art critic of The Spectator and The Sunday Telegraph, author of artist monographs (currently Paula Rego), edited the ornithologist Henry Douglas-Home's The Birdman and was arts editor of The Field. He is a regular contributor to Country Life and an instigator of The Oldie, to which he contributes Bird of the Month with Carry Akroyd.