I started this series of paintings because I wanted to do a series of birds in watercolour and I wanted it to be playful, different and a creative challenge both for me and the viewer. So I decided to call the series Strange Birds since they were meant to be just that, strange. I made a list of 15 European birds that I would do for the series and got to it. They were painted in loose watercolour and fine-liner and I made them strange by changing the colour and adding some patterns. The series was completed at the beginning of 2017.