o   PAINTINGS    o

The paintings listed below have been rendered with acrylic paints on illustration card using brushes, airbrush and other utensils. Instructions on how to purchase any of these original artworks, prints and poster prints can be found at PURCHASING ARTWORK. Publishers seeking reproduction rights or new COMMISSIONS should contact ROBERT NICHOLLS.

o   Cenozoic    o
Devourer of Giants

Devourer of Giants    (Pliocene)    Private commission
A herd of Anancus (mastodons) have drowned in a flash flood and now their dead and bloated bodies drift with the current in a shallow ocean. Soon, their odour attracts two adult and one juvenile Charcharocles megalodon. These colossal sharks grew to fifty tonnes in weight, and therefore megalodon is a contender for the title of Earth’s supreme predator.
ORIGINAL: unavailable   PRINTS: £15.00    POSTER PRINTS: L=£90.00 O=£135.00 M=£180.00  

Harvest Dawn

Harvest Dawn    (Holocene)    Kingfisher Publishing
At dawn 9,000 years ago, on the Fertile Crescent a settlement of early farmers are at work. In the foreground a man is using a flint sickle to harvest wild wheat while on the other side of a basic fence a woman and a girl are carrying water. Below the buildings, on the other side of an irrigation channel is a herd of domesticated sheep and goats. Beyond them more farmers harvest the fields of wheat.
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o   Mesozoic    o
Above the Impact

Above the Impact    (Cretaceous)    Courtesy of Roar Publishing
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Leviathan

Leviathan    (Jurassic)    Commissioned by the Museum of Jurassic Marine
The greatest predators in the Jurassic oceans were pliosaurs, some of which grew over 12m in length. Here an enormous Pliosaurus lunges forward to capture and swallow a Cryptoclidus whole. Above this attack are four large fish, called Pachycormus, and below swim ammonites, Pectinates, and a shoal of belemnites, Belemnoteuthis.
ORIGINAL: (26cm x 56cm): £650.00    PRINTS: £15.00   POSTER PRINTS: L=£90.00 O=£135.00 M=£180.00  

Cretaceous Jaws

Cretaceous Jaws    (Cretaceous)    Private commission
Late in the Cretaceous period a giant shark, Cretoxyrhina mantelli, feasts upon a juvenile Tylosaurus prorigor. Two other large sharks, Squalicorax kaupi, move in and await an opportunity to steal a bite from the sinking carcass. All three sharks must feed quickly before the smell of blood attracts more sharks, or worse, an adult tylosasaur!
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Reaper in Paradise

Reaper in Paradise    (Cretaceous)    Private commission
Deinosuchus means 'terror crocodile' and it is a well deserved name because Deinosuchus riograndensis was a dinosaur eater! Its enormously powerful jaws and killing death roll were capable of tearing apart even large dinosaurs. But before consuming its prey, Deinosuchus may have wedged dead animals under submerged rocks and vegetation to slowly decay.
ORIGINAL: (36cm x 53cm): £650.00   PRINTS: £15.00   POSTER PRINTS: L=£80.00 O=£120.00 M=£160.00  

Duel

Duel    (Cretaceous)    Courtesy of Quarto Publishing
It is the time of year when the male Pachycephalosaurus fight for dominance and the right to mate with females. Most battles are decided before violence, using aggressive dancing and bellowing, but when two males are equally matched they resort to head strikes. Their elaborate skulls are predominantly used for display but when necessary they become dangerous battering rams thrust into an opponent’s torso.
ORIGINAL: (28cm x 36cm): £550.00   PRINTS: £15.00   POSTER PRINTS: L=£80.00 O=£120.00 M=£160.00  

Filter Feeding

Filter Feeding    (Cretaceous)    Private Commission
Through the blue depths of a shallow ocean calmly swims a 6m long fish, called Bonnerichthys. With its jaws agape the Bonnerichthys continuously filters krill and other organic matter from the water to fuel its huge body. Smaller fish are vulnerable to many marine hunters but a fully grown Bonnerichthys is large enough to avoid attack from all but the biggest predators.
ORIGINAL: (36cm x 29cm): £550.00   PRINTS: £15.00   POSTER PRINTS: L=£70.00 O=£105.00 M=£140.00  

The Impact

The Impact    (Cretaceous)    Courtesy of Roar Publishing
65 million years ago a meteor the size of a mountain collided with Earth. The impact was at a location now called Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula, and the subsequent crater left behind was 180km in diameter. Oblivious to the approaching apocalypse a young Tyrannosaurus rex strides over a fertile hilltop. Within a moment everything in this scene will become vaporised deep into bedrock.
ORIGINAL: unavailable    PRINTS: £15.00   POSTER PRINTS: L=£90.00 O=£135.00 M=£180.00  

Above the Stream

Above the Stream    (Cretaceous)    Produced for the Dinosaur Society
The parched stream bed in front of us is wide but a small family flock of Sinornithosaurs millenii use their powerful legs to leap across. From deadwood to deadwood, the agile and lightweight dinosaurs jump then glide toward safety. Within seconds they vanish into the dense understory foliage, comprised mainly of cycads and ferns.
ORIGINAL: (30cm x 28cm): £200.00   PRINTS: £15.00   POSTER PRINTS: L=£60.00 O=£105.00 M=£140.00  

The Last Brachiosaur

The Last Brachiosaur    (Cretaceous)    Private Commission
It has been forty days since the sun last fell to the sound of singing brachiosaurs. For weeks this giant sang alone hoping for a reply from another of her kind, but none came. Now, her will is broken and beneath the setting Cretaceous sun she awaits her fate. Following this night, never again will a Brachiosaurus shadow be cast upon the Earth.
ORIGINAL: (44cm x 33cm): £500.00   PRINTS: £15.00   POSTER PRINTS: L=£70.00 O=£105.00 M=£140.00  

Bait Ball

Bait Ball    (Jurassic)    Commissioned by the Museum of Jurassic Marine
In a desperate attempt to avoid capture thousands of Thrissops fish swarm together into a bait ball. Trachyteuthis belemnites and Pectinatites ammonites also take action to leave the scene as three ichthyosaurs (unnamed) hunt for prey. The youngest ichthyosaur darts into the bait ball causing the Thrissops to separate and open a writhing circular window to the ocean surface above.
ORIGINAL: (26cm x 56cm): £650.00   PRINTS: £15.00   POSTER PRINTS: L=£90.00 O=£135.00 M=£180.00  

o   Palaeozoic    o
Melee for the Dead

Melee for the Dead    (Carboniferous)    Courtesy of Kingfisher Publishing
The stench of a rotting Eogyrinus corpse attracts invertebrates of all shapes and sizes from a dark Carboniferous forest. Amongst them are a 3m long millipede-like Arthropleura, the giant dragonfly Meganeura, and a huge Hibbertopterus ‘sea-scorpion.’ A colourful adult male Ophiacodon then enters the scene and stakes his claim to the maggot infested carrion.
ORIGINAL: unavailable   PRINTS: unavailable   POSTER PRINTS: unavailable  

Green Pond

Green Pond    (Carboniferous)    Commissioned by The Weardale Society
Far below a canopy of clubmoss trees is a little green pond. Surrounding the pond is a huge variety of plants, some of which are familiar but others look strange and alien. Amongst this green world live countless crawling and buzzing invertebrates and always waiting for an opportunity to eat them are amphibians and primitive reptiles.
ORIGINAL: (21cm x 41cm): £350.00   PRINTS: £15.00   POSTER PRINTS: L=£90.00 O=£135.00 M=£180.00  

Black Hole

Black Hole    (Palaeozoic)    Courtesy of Roar Publishing
Sometime in the distant past far away, a planet is destroyed by a black hole. The black hole’s enormous gravitational forces stretch and squeeze the orbiting planet until it glows red hot and starts to disintegrate. The planet’s crust fractures, breaks apart and is sucked through space towards the irresistible black abyss.
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