The Beau with the Bow is a wonderfully eccentric and characterful original watercolour painting that perfectly captures the artist's distinctive blend of humour, storytelling and fine draughtsmanship. Dressed in theatrical eighteenth-century attire and caught mid-performance, this elegantly dishevelled hare plays the violin with dramatic flair; a charming rogue suspended somewhere between woodland folklore and grand society. Jonathan Walker's work is celebrated for transforming the animals of the British countryside into richly imagined personalities, and his original watercolour paintings are among the most distinctive in contemporary British wildlife art. 

Born in Staffordshire in 1966, Jonathan Walker spent much of his early life drawing and painting under the encouragement of his father, Keith Walker, himself an accomplished painter. After exploring fine art, theology, philosophy and a career in occupational therapy, Walker eventually returned fully to painting and has worked as a full-time artist for over a decade. A beloved figure in British contemporary art, his original watercolours are held in private collections across the UK and beyond. Since moving to Devon in the early 1990s, the surrounding countryside has become central to his imaginative world - one inhabited by hares, foxes and badgers dressed as dandies, rakes, and vagabonds, acting out deeply human dramas while never losing their essential "animalness".