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As well as birdwatching around his home and studio in South London, Ocean regularly visits his sister, who is a nun in Nairobi and has loved birds all her life. There, he paints Kenyan birds such as the Eurasian bee-eater, the bulbul and the flycatcher that are &#8216;local, a bit like our garden birds so nothing overly exotic, but of course to me they are&#8217;. 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