NESTS

Tidying up her garden after a storm, artist Susan Ogilvy found a chaffinch nest - a strange, sodden lump on the grass. She carried it inside and placed it on a newspaper, and over the next few hours it blossomed into a mossy jewel. This began an obsession: Ogilvy has since painted more than fifty bird nests from life, each time marvelling at its ingenious construction from twigs, roots, grasses, reeds, leaves, moss, lichen, hair, feathers and cobwebs. Exquisitely designed and packaged, Nests is an essential addition to any nature library.