Art Courses and Holidays
Darren has lead art courses with a number of groups: The Field Studies Council, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Stirling University, and BBC Wildlife Magazine amongst others. He is a guest tutor with Art Safari leading painting holidays to Costa Rica.
El Arenal volcano (watercolour)
Three-toed Sloth (sketchbook page)
Keel-billed Toucan (sketchbook page)
Blue-crowned Motmot
Black Hawk
Neotropic Cormorant, Sueno Azul
Montezuma's Oropendula
Palms at Playa de Ballena
Manuel Antonio National Park and Crab-eating Raccoon
Looking and sketching a three-toed sloth
Nature Guide
Darren is a first-rate naturalist and has guided over one hundred and eighty tours overseas for Speyside Wildlife, with destinations as diverse as Ecuador's Galapagos Islands and Amazon rainforest to the high Arctic territories of Svalbard and Canada's Hudson Bay. Darren lived in Boston, Massachusetts for two years and has introduced many people to a wealth of North American wildlife, leading groups to Alaska, California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, New England, Florida, Nova Scotia and Manitoba. In 2021 Darren will be leading groups to Yellowstone, Mull, Namibia, Nova Scotia, and California. Check details at www.speysidewildlife.co.uk