So, you’ve just bought home your brand new piece of taxidermy and you love it! Now what?

Hello, I hope December has gotten off to a good start for you and you’re looking forward to the festivities and cosy nights to come!

One of the fundamental aspects of my taxidermy practice, relies on the discovery of deceased animals in the wild. I have a lot of members of the public donate me various specimens that they have found whilst out on dog walks, hikes and whilst being out on the roads etc.

I cannot stress how important it is to observe a few details I will explain below, before picking up any dead animal you may have stumbled across, to adhere to legalities and rule out any unlawful activity, as well as protecting your own health.

The ‘For Nature’ art exhibition at ARTSPACE, Woodbridge, Suffolk, is open once again this week and I am absolutely thrilled to be apart of it!

The ethics surrounding taxidermy is something that I am constantly re-evaluating. Keeping my moral compass in line with the direction in which I want to travel with my craft, is something that is very important to me – keeping natures best interest at the forefront of my brand.

We all know that with any art form or skill, the price of the outcome can vary wildly based on things like reputation, labour and many other factors. But here is an insight in to why taxidermy is deemed to be expensive in 2023.

After all, it’s just stuffing a dead animal, right? Wrong.

Have you just found an animal or bird that you would like to get made in to a taxidermy mount? Then carefully observe the below guidance, as there is some pretty important steps that you need to follow.

If you’ve just picked up a specimen from the taxidermist and you’re wondering how to care for it and how to keep it looking as fresh as the day you got it, this blog post is for you!

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This week in the Taxidermy.Co Workshop, we can see the work of two juvenile specimens. A beautiful Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) and a Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)

This week in the taxidermy workshop, I waved goodbye to this magnificent magpie!

This post may be a little bit different to my previous entries, but I think that blogs are primarily a place to express one’s views, so I shall use this space of the internet to voice my personal concerns and observations about some areas of the taxidermy industry.