Compass and map not required celebrates the inherent ability of birds to navigate using an internal GPS system to follow the same migration routes each year. They use the sun and landmarks, along with a way of sensing North. Aren’t they marvellous?
It is many layered painting with the scratchily formed birds silhouetted against the sky.
 
The painting has many layers with the brighter colours of the under painting peeking through, much like the bright pops of colour from the lichens growing on the twisted branches of the few shrubby trees bordering the reed beds.