New Queen Honeybee Engraving by Andrew Tyzack
New in Bees in Art: Honeybee tryptich by Richard Lewington

Rick Lieder @ Bees in Art
Rick possess a gentle painterly eye and photographs honeybees, using the warmth of natural light: at work, within the hive and in flight. Without the usual armament of tripod and flash, Rick quietly gets in amongst the bees. Accepted, he is able to photograph them from their perspective.
Rick’s clients include: Natural History Magazine; HarperCollins; Penguin Publishing and Orion Magazine.
Honeybees in flight by Rick Lieder
A Church Apiary on the North York Moors
A small derelict church becomes an apiary for honeybees
on the North York Moors.
A Queen Honeybee: From boxwood round to finished wood engraving.
A wood engraving begins
with a rough boxwood round, which is cut ‘end grain’
on and polished until it is smoother than glass. The
artist engraves onto the darkened surface with
various tools. The final print is pulled from the
inked engraving, using a fine quality paper.
A Queen Honeybee by Andrew
Tyzack: From boxwood round to finished wood engraving.
Honeybee queen drawing and wood engraving
‘Honeybee
queen’, pencil on paper, & ‘Queen
honeybee’, wood engraving by Andrew
Tyzack
Untitled by Kit Williams coming soon to Bees in Art
The Fables of Aesop: The Bee & Jupiter
The Fables of Aesop: The
Bee and Jupiter. Written by Maurice Maeterlinck
and illustrated by E.J. Detmold 1909
New Honeybee Drawing by Andrew Tyzack
Honeybees by Richard Lewington
Richard Lewington @ Bees in Art
Latterly Richard has written and illustrated the ‘Pocket Guide to the Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland’, which shows the detailed life-cycles of all the British butterflies, and with his artist brother Ian, who illustrated the birds, the ‘Guide to Garden Wildlife’, which includes 900 illustrations of 500 species, including the ‘big six’ British bumblebees, found in British gardens.
Debbie Grice @ Bees in Art
Beehives by
Wood Mezzotint Engraving by Debbie
Grice
Watch the trailer of Vanishing of the Bees
To help reverse the worrying decline
in the UK bee population, The Co-operative
has launched
Plan Bee, a 10 point plan that includes
action on pesticides, actions on farms, funding
research and inspiring individuals to make a
difference. Vanishing of the Bees can be viewed
throughout the UK. Click here for
screenings.
Preparing Honeybees for Winter in Britain
Feeding honeybees with sugar syrup
Lastly a mouse guard is
attached over the hive entrance. This prevents mice
from entering the bee hive and constructing a nest
alongside the bees. During the winter mice can eat
their way through the stored syrup, beeswax combs and
even the wintering bees.
Attaching a mouse guard to a British Modified National
Bee Hive
The bees are then left
alone until December, when they will be trickled with a
dilute solution of oxalic acid. Which is a
required procedure to reduce the numbers of Varroa Destructor Mites
(Varroa jacobsoni), now
endemic in Britain. Many scientists suspect Varroa as one of the causes
of the mysterious Colony Collapse
Disorder.
Heather Honeycomb from the North York Moors
Heather Honeycomb produced by Andrew
Tyzack’s bees.
Andrew Tyzack collects his Honeybees from the North York Moors
Sunset, North York Moors, September 2009
Andrew Tyzack
has collected his honeybees from the North York
Moors, returning them to his home apiary in East
Yorkshire. At sunset the bees returned to the hives
allowing the entrances to be closed. They were
sufficiently heavy to make the thirty metres to the
car quite a struggle. Suggesting that this year the
bees have produced a decent crop of heather honey.
Excellent crops from the moors only come once in
every five years. Andrew will
now begin the process of harvesting the honey from
the hives.
Bees and Heather Honey
Andrew Tyzack and heather honey
Sunrise and Beehives, North York Moors, August 2009
Bees in Art artist and curator Andrew Tyzack
has taken his honey bees to the North York Moors,
with the hope that they gather heather honey. Soon
the ling heather (Calluna vulgaris) will be
in full bloom, turning the moors into a panorama of
beautiful violet. Andrew is a
third generation beekeeper and every August he takes
his beehives up to the moors. Weather permitting,
his bees will fill the supers with honey. In
September he'll bring the hives back to his home
apiary to harvest the honey. Then he will feed and
prepare his bees for winter.





