This farm animals picture called "Feathered Friends", of hens and geese turned into an idea for an oil painting following a few days stay at a bed and breakfast at Hilda's countryside farm in Clunie Perthshire, Scotland.
It was a mixed farm not far from Blairgowrie, with cows,
hens, a few pigeons, and of course a working border collie dog. However since the hens ran free outdoors, their seed source became available to a few local wild geese, more interested in a free dinner than the Scottish scenery.The picture was completed with a ramshackle henhouse, put together with an assortment of wooden planks and corrugated iron secured with fencing wire and binder twine, but full of artistic character. The farm animals loved it.