Art in the field
XCITING LIONS and elephants charge across the canvases of so many wildlife artists that Richard Whittlestone confesses disarmingly: “I used to feel embarrassed that I don’t get a kick out of painting the ‘big five’.” Britain doesn’t have a ‘big five’ list of glamorous safari must-spot animals, and even if it did, it has to be admitted the humble hedgehog would not bumble its way on to it. Yet on Whittlestone’s hedgerow safaris, it is the eye-level wildlife – the tiny wren,
