Cape Gannet Art Print, Signed Limited Edition Watercolor

Cape gannets nest in tens of thousands on a few islands off South Africa and Namibia, and they fish by folding their wings and hitting the water from thirty metres up. The head is the colour of weak tea, the eye is ringed in pale blue, and black lines run from the bill like pencil marks. I painted the head and neck wet, with the yellow bleeding into the white, and drew the lines dry at the very end.

Why it is a limited edition

Each print is made in an edition of 150, and I sign and number every copy in pencil under the image. The edition is small so that every copy can be made properly: the file is scanned from the painting itself, printed on museum-quality cotton paper with archival pigment inks, compared with the original in daylight and corrected until the colours match, and only then signed. When the last copy is sold, the edition closes for good.

Paper, inks and sizes

• Archival pigment inks on acid-free, museum-quality watercolor paper
• Framed canvas options in a black wooden frame, ready to hang
• 15 sizes, from 20 x 26 cm to 100 x 140 cm
• Shipped flat or rolled in a hard tube, with tracking

Frame not included unless the option says Framed Canvas. Pairs well with the puffin and pelican prints for a coastal wall.