Welcome to the website of Darren Woodhead

Darren sketching on hillside

Darren’s website is currently being renewed and refreshed so please bear with me and keep in touch. Although we have experienced a few delays we hope the new site will be up and running during February 2012 and will feature new work as well as selling books and limited edition prints.
Darren has been named Birdwatch Magazine Artist of the Year 2009.

Darren Woodhead is one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists and watercolourists and is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, London. Originally from West Yorkshire and always a keen naturalist, he now lives and works on the coast of the Firth of Forth in south-east Scotland.

He has exhibited and travelled widely, and since winning the Artists for Nature Foundation Award in 2000, has been invited to accompany the Artists for Nature Foundation on projects to the Spanish Pyrenees (2001), Portuguese Algarve (2002), Peru and Ecuador (2003), Great Fen (2004/2005) Israel (2010) and Sark (2011). His paintings and drawings also feature in Drawing Birds by John Busby (2004).

Elected a member of The Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA) in 2000, Darren has served on its council and has been an active member of many of the SWLA’s projects, including the New Forest (2001) and Aig on Oir (2004/2005). He has won several National Awards for his work and has recently completed a commission for HRH Prince Philip’s 90th Birthday.
Up River, the Song of the Esk, a book showcasing Darren’s recent work for The Orcome Trust, was published in August 2009. Read more about the book in the Publications section.

Currently Darren has a large scale solo exhibition at The Donald Watson Gallery,Waterston House, The Headquarters of the Scotttish Ornithologists Club, Aberlady from the 19th November 2011 – 25th January 2012.