Esther Tyson is an English painter inspired by the natural world. She has been working as a painter since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2003. Esther has been involved in numerous projects worldwide, the most recent of which was in Senegal, West Africa, where she was invited by the BTO to portray the people, landscape and birds on migration. Back on her local patch she finds much inspiration throughout the South Derbyshire countryside and, closer to home, a never ending stream of birds visit the feeder hanging outside her window. She says: ‘Watching Goldfinch on the feeder outside my window I note the colour, pattern, shape, their movement and behaviour. These observations inform the marks I make, every subject commanding an individual response.’