Read this Wildlife Art Journal article Achromatic, Darryn Eggleton, oil on linen, 90cm x 80cm Subscribers may see all 106 images. Simply Beautiful, Martine Jasmin, oil, 100cm x 65cm Subscribers may see all 106 images. Landscape, Sandra Lapage, woodcut print, 100cm x 100cm Subscribers may see all 106 images. Brothers, Susan Orpen, watercolour & charcoal, 75cm x 57cm Subscribers may see all 106 images. Tree Frog, Lucy Cortese, watercolour & coloured pencil, 24cm x 30.5cm Subscribers may see all 106 images. A Treat From Europe: The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation Wildlife Artist of the Year CompetitionWildlife Art Journal Allows You To See More Than 100 Entry FinalistsWritten By Wildlife Art Journal Staff (Author's Bio)
David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation Announces Winners
In 2009 Wildlife Artist of the Year Competition
The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation's "Wildlife Artist of the Year"Competition already looms large as one of the world's most important art-related events that raises funds for grassroots conservation. Although only in its second year, the impact of the contest transcends the amount of money it generates. Shepherd himself says the whole point of the event is to raise the profile of wildlife in desperate of help, and elevate the profile of artists who want to make a difference.
The 2009 competition has dazzling images and the grand prize winner, announced in early June 2009, is Australian painter Pamela Conder for her entry, Chimpanzees—Reflections On Ageing.
Last year, a portrait of an endangered orangutan from Borneo, made in colored pencil by Richard Childs, a senior engineer who works for the city of Nottingham in his day job, won the £10,000 grand prize. Child's piece, titled The Hope of Sepilok, took 65 hours to complete, Childstold BBC News, realizing that pencil as a medium is often relegated by those who paint in oil, acrylic or watercolor.
Part of the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation's popular Art for Survival Program, the 2009 contest featured more than 75 artists from the UK, Europe, and Africa, many of whom are lesser known to the wildlife art community in North America. We think North American artists and collectors will be intrigued to know how their talented...
Additional Article Information:· Article is 476 words long (250 are displayed in this preview). Author: Wildlife Art Journal Staff Post Date:August 8th, 2009 'AND THE RESULTS ARE IN: View ALL of the international entries in the 2009 Wildlife Artist of the Year competition sponsored by the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation. This annual art contest already looms large as one of the world's most importantart-related events that raises funds for grassroots conservation. Although only in its second year, the impact of the contest transcends the amount of money it generates. Shepherd himself says the whole pointof the event is to raise the profile of wildlife that need help and to elevate the profile of artists who want to make a difference. See works by: Paul Apps, Tom Ashworth, Martin Aveling, Paul Bartlett, Davina Bosanquet, David Bennett, Fiona Campbell, Pamela Conder, Gordon Corrins ,Adam Crisford, Judith Cross, Wendy Corbett, Lucy Cortese, Phil Dakin, Willem deBeer, Martin Debenham, Romaine Dennistoun, Nick Derry, Margaret Edwards,Darryn Eggleton,Carl Ellis, David Filer, Mark Gibson, Scott Gleed, Jack Falkner,Ant Flynn,Jeremy Hammick ,Christopher Hindley, Taania Hobden, George Hogg,Amanda Humble, Jenny Hyde-Johnson,Alison Ingram, Julia Jacs, Martine Jasmin,Tessa Shedley Jordan, Hans Kappel, David Kelly, Tacy Kneale, Sandra Lapage,Roslyn Levin, Nick Mackman, Gayle Mason, Helen May, Bruce McClunan, Stephen Message, Deborah Scaldwell Moody, Jonathan Newey, Danail Ochkov, Ashleigh Olsen, Calley O;Neill,Jeremy Paul, Howard Parfitt, Pollyanna Pickering, Susan Poole,Carina Prigmore, Darren Rees, Laurence Saunois, Dafila Scott, Clare Shaughnessy, Chris Shield, Limei Shimmen, Paul Slavin, Steven Smith, Ann Squire, David Stribbling, Barry Sutton,Jonathan Swindall, Robert Symington, Mark Tabbener, Cathy Taylor, Chloe Tickner, Richard Tratt,Jonathan Truss, Katherine Waters, and paintings by elephants.
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