Past Exhibitions & Wild Spaces

A painting of a Scottish Black Grouse bird on an easel, with another bird painting leaning against the wall. The background has pastel shades with some text, and the scene is in the art studio of Sub urban bird artist Tim Niall-Harris

Scottish sporting estate commission featuring Black Grouse.

A mixed medium portrait, incorporating traditional oil paints and acrylic alongside spray paint, inks, graffiti cleaner, and detritus collected from the wild places the grouse inhabit.

grouse painting scottish sporting artist Tim Niall-Harris

Scottish sporting estate commission - Sketching and painting Red Grouse on the grouse moors.

whisky illustrations by tim niall-harris

Scottish Game Birds of Speyside Limited Edition Single Malt Whisky Labels commission - Cash for Kids charity and Gordon & MacPhail Speyside, Scotland.

In the last few years work has centred around the art studio on Speyside, where Tim has been painting game birds of the Highlands of Scotland on commission for Sporting estates and clients.

Capturing moments in the more remote, wild places of the Highlands. Main focus being Red Grouse, Black Grouse Ptarmigan, Capercaillie, Pheasant and Partridge.

2016 - Dublin, Republic of Ireland street art roaming.

2015 - Australian trip to paint parrots, cockatoos and Australian bird species in Western Australia and Victoria - Featuring Galah Cockatoos, 28 Parrots, Lorikeets and Honeyeaters. Mixed with street art roaming in Melbourne and Perth.

2011 - Australian trip to paint parrots, cockatoos and Australian bird species in Victoria - Featuring Cockatoos, Wattlebirds and Rainbow Lorikeets. Mixed with street art roaming in Melbourne.

2010 - Australian trip to paint parrots, cockatoos and Australian bird species in Victoria. Mixed with street art roaming in Melbourne and Perth.

2010 - Speyside solo exhibition - Featuring Capercaillie, Black Grouse and game birds of Speyside. Bush House, Aberlour

2009 - Australian trip to paint parrots, cockatoos and Australian bird species in the Karri forest, Western Australia and Victoria

2008 - Speyside solo exhibition - - Featuring Capercaillie, Black Grouse and game birds of Speyside. Bush House, Aberlour

2007 - Finish Lapland - Painting Capercaillie, grouse and birds of the Arctic Circle - Rovaniemi, and Sodankyla region, Finland

2007 - Speyside solo exhibition - Featuring Capercaillie, Black Grouse and parrots of the world. Bush House, Aberlour

2006 - Solo exhibition - Featuring Game birds and sporting estates of Speyside. Minmore House, Glenlivet

2005 - RSPB Joint Capercaillie exhibition - Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh

2003 - Speyside solo exhibition - Featuring Capercaillie, Black Grouse and game birds of Speyside. Bush House, Aberlour

2002 - Speyside field trip to paint game birds of Scotland - Including red grouse, pheasant, partridge and Spey fishing beats at Tulchan Lodge and Ballindalloch for private clients.

2001 - Southern England field trip to paint game birds - Including pheasant, partridge and Great Bustards.

2000 - Argyll field trip to paint grouse - Argyll, Scotland

1999 - Parrot Society Exhibition - Featuring Military macaws, Hyacinth macaws and lorikeet species. Stafford

1999 - Argyll field trip to paint grouse - Argyll, Scotland

1998 - Game Conservancy Trust - Joint Exhibition - Malcolm Innes Gallery, London

1998 - Cage & Aviary Birds 50th Anniversary National Exhibition - Featuring parrots of the world. NEC, Birmingham

1997 - Parrot Society Exhibition -- Featuring Birds of Paradise, Macaws and cockatoos. Stafford

1996 - Beale Park - Joint Exhibition - Beale Park, Pangbourne, Berks.

1996 - Game Conservancy Trust - Joint Exhibition - Malcolm Innes Gallery, London

1996 - Parrots of the World - Joint Exhibition - Featuring macaws and Australian Rosella parrots. Tryon & Moorland Gallery - Cork St, London

1995 - Barbados - Oughterson commission to paint St Vincent Amazon parrots and birds of the Caribbean region.

1995 - Parrot Society Exhibition - Featuring Scarlet macaws and a series of limited edition parrot prints. Alexander Palace, London

1995 - Parrots of the World - Joint Exhibition - Featuring Macaws, Rosellas and Galah cockatoos. Tryon & Moorland Gallery - Cork St, London

1995 - Parrot Society Exhibition - Alexander Palace, London

1995 - Oaklands Gallery - Solo Exhibition - Surrey

1995 - Century Galleries, Henley on Thames - Featuring parrots of the world. Joint exhibition

1994 - Oaklands Gallery - Featuring game birds of Southern England and parrots. Joint Exhibition - Surrey

1993 - Sandown Park - Featuring lorikeets and cockatoos. Parrot Society Exhibition

1992 - Gambia, Janjanbureh & Senegal, Saloum Delta National Park trip to paint birdlife of West Africa. Featuring Pelicans, Guineafowl, Hornbills, Flamingo, Rollers and Turacos

1992 - Beauty Without Cruelty - Group show - Regents Park London. Featuring watercolours and pastels of Cassowaries, Emus, cockatoos and birds of Australia

1991 - Arnella Gallery - Group Exhibition - Port Elliot, South Australia. Featuring a group of paintings of Little ( Fairy ) Penguins on Granite Island, South Australia

1990 - First Australian trip to paint parrots, cockatoos and Australian bird species in all areas of the country. Inc South Australia, NSW, Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia and Tasmania.

1989 - Caribbean painting trip to The Dominican Republic - Painting humming birds, flamingo and Caribbean woodpeckers.

Early 1980’s - Boredom braised in the second phase of the UK punk scene and art college. Starting out painting leather jackets with punk graphics for fellow creatives and lunatics - London and Brighton.