Renewed Inspiration

So I went to the annual David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation "Wildlife Artist of the Year" exhibition at The Mall Galleries in London on the weekend.  It was pretty spectacular!  I had a great time and enjoyed the work on show.  A massive congratulations to Zimbabwean David Filer who claimed the title with his stunning graphite pencil drawing of an elephant and her calf.

As always, it was great seeing what Emily Lamb has been up to, major inspiration she is!  Young and full of new ideas bringing such a fresh take of wildlife art to the art world.

While on my trip back to South Africa, I went through some goods sitting in storage at my folks' place and I found a picture of a painting I did for school back in 1999.  After looking at all the art on show and looking at some art I've done over the years, I've decided it would be a good thing to put the camera down for a few evenings a week, step away from the computer screen and put brush to canvass again.  I love my photography, but there is something so liberating and peaceful about sitting in front of a blank canvass and painting away.

Here's the painting I did of elephants with Mt. Kilimanjaro in the background.