Gallery

An on-going project being updated over time.

The End Had Come
1948
Ink wash
27cm x 32cm

Exhibited 1954, I.P.P.A
Sold 2022, Chilcotts Auctioneers

Early Work

Untitled
1949?
Pen & Ink
xxxx cms

Red-fronted Gazelle
1948
Oil
30cm x 24cm

Birds

Heron
1982
Watercolour

(original size unknown)

From: Some Birds & Mammals of the Riverbank
by Kenneth Lilly, pub. The Medici Society, 1983

Green Woodpecker
1976
Watercolour
46 x 30 cm


Reproduced: Fine Art Print
The Medici Society, 1976

Little Owl with Young
1973
Watercolour
48 x 30 cm

Reproduced: Fine Art Print
The Medici Society, 1973

Young Little Owl
1981
Pencil

19 x 19 cm

Reproduced: Ceramic plate Honiton Pottery

Barn Owl with Field Mouse
1992
Pencil and watercolour
45 x 30 cm

Private collection

Sand Martens
1981
Watercolour

21 x 27 cm

From: RSPB Calendar 1982 pub. The Curwen Press, 1981

Cuckoo
1981
Watercolour

21 x 27 cm

From: RSPB Calendar 1982 pub. The Curwen Press, 1981

Mammals

Hare
1986
Ink & watercolour

(20.5 x 17.5cm)

Illustration Come, come to my corner
by William Mayne, pub. Walker Books, 1986

Harvest mice (detail)
198
Watercolour

(20.5 x 17.5cm)

Reproduced: Fine Art Print
The Medici Society, 19

Hedgehogs
198
Watercolour

(20.5 x 17.5cm)

Illustration

Other Animals

For Children

Poundwater

The Poundwater Sketchbook was a book proposal Ken was working on, based on observations of a life in and around the garden at the family home, Poundwater. There are sheaves of sketches and notes collected over a number of years – a few were developed into sample spreads

Front Cover artwork
19xx
Ink & watercolour

27.5 x 21.5 cm

Field Sketch
1978
Ink

27.5 x 21.5 cm

Double page artwork, incomplete text
19xx
Ink & watercolour

27.5 x 43 cm

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