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'[W]alking along a path into the forest – tall Norway spruce, grey skies and bright white underfoot. My eyes struggle with the dazzling snow. A little further and tracks... BEAR! We tracked him backward – to follow in his direction could lead to an encounter we did not want to push for right now. He ambled in, out and around the tree line. For a moment out into the open, 100 yards before crossing our path to continue winding through the forest. Ahead a hut for storage, of food? As I approach I found the wood splintered with claw marks, six feet high...' (an extract from Esther Tyson's 'Slovakian Diary'). Tyson is a painter whose work reflects her deep feeling for the natural world, without being sentimental. Painting from life, she seeks to capture the essence of her subject.