Hares bound to please as art works come in from the cold

Wildlife artist Mr Fuller made national headlines last year when he braved heavy snows to study a group of hares on the Yorkshire Wolds.

Usually solitary, hares only come together to mate. And so when the artist saw more than 50 hares bounding through snow fields, he dressed in white and waded through the thigh-high drifts for eight hours a day to watch them.

His perseverance in the Arctic conditions attracted huge media attention.

Now his detailed paintings of the hares and their leverets, the first to have been born in 2011, are the main focus of the exhibition at Fotherdale Farm, Thixendale, North Yorkshire.

Despite their abundance on the Yorkshire Wolds, brown hares are one of the fastest declining mammals in this country today.

This exhibition celebrates their tenacity and determination to survive despite the odds. Accompanying the event are a series of nature walks and talks, one by the acclaimed landscape photographer Joe Cornish, a wire sculpture workshop and several bird-watching tours of the Yorkshire Wolds.

The exhibition runs from Saturday, June 4 to June 19 and is open daily from 11am to 4.30pm.