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LATEST NEWS The 1991 "tall" Cheetah print is for sale in Oxfam's shop. 100% of the proceeds of the sale of this picture will fund Oxfam relief work in programs such as Haiti. MAJOR EXHIBITION OF GARY’S DRAWINGS 2010 is going to be a huge year for Gary peaking with a major retrospective exhibition “Drawn to the Soul” of over 40 originals spanning 23 years, to be showcased at the Nature in Art Museum, Gloucester, UK. The dates for your diary are - 7th September - 10th October 2010. There will be a private view (TBA).  Nature in Art is the world’s first, and Europe’s only, museum dedicated exclusively to art inspired by nature. Established 21 years ago, it has only staged 8 solo shows by living artists, including David Shepherd, Keith Shackleton and Anthony Gibbs. Other shows of late artists have included the works of Sir Peter Scott, Simon Coombes and Pablo Picasso. Gary is the first pencil artist to be honoured with a solo show. Please note: this museum will be borrowing back originals for this show - exhibits will not be for sale. Limited edition prints will be available from the museum shop. In addition to this exciting news, other projects are developing. We’ll keep you posted. _________ TATTOO - BORN TO BE WILD Amazing new charity creation by Gary! In aid of Born Free and with the Elephant Family charity, Gary has created a wonderful fibre-glass elephant to be one of 200 in The Elephant Parade in May, June and July 2010 in London. See more pictures and Gary's thoughts in the gallery.  TATTOO - BORN TO BE WILD _________ GRACE The second in Gary's wild cat portrait series, Grace, is now finished and available to order from the shop. The paper signed limited edition was published on 20th November with the box canvas signed limited edition published a week later on 27th November. See below for the final image and earlier versions. This beautiful cheetah portrait is for sale now with free delivery after the published date. If you buy both Majesty and Grace together we can ensure you receive the same edition numbers. We can also offer the same for the last two wild cat portraits to be published in 2010. The next will be a jaguar.  GRACE  CHEETAH DRAWING THIRD UNFINISHED UPDATE
 FIRST UNFINISHED IMAGE You can see the first three unfinished images from Gary's new cheetah drawing above. This is the second in his series of four wild cat portraits and will be published the same size as Majesty to work on your wall as a set. The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation have a great gift idea of "postcards for wildlife" - 18 different images on postcards bound together in one booklet. Some of the winners from last year's Wildlife Artist of the Year are included along with others including my orang-utan drawing Plea for the Rainforest. £6 each incl p&p from DSWF (see links). _______ Gary had a wonderful time at two 25th celebrations recently. The
first was at Cafe Spice Namaste in Central London in
aid of EIA's tiger campaign. A special meal was prepared by top
chefs Cyrus Todiwala MBE, Paul Gayler and Andrew Bennett OBE. Donal
MacIntyre, investigative journalist and TV presenter, gave a speech showering praise on EIA. Gary donated a box canvas edition of Soulmates which was auctioned for an amazing £1,150. A framed paper edition of Angel Eyes, kindly donated by Jenny Seagrove sold for £350. The
second was a spectacular concert "Wild and Live" at the Royal Albert Hall,
Central London, in aid of the Born Free Foundation. The star-studded
event was headlined by Bryan Adams with an incredible international
line-up including Peter Andre, Graham Norton, Joanna Lumley, compared by Martin Clunes. Virginia Mckenna was given a standing ovation for her dedication and tenacity saving wild animals as she praised her son, Will Travers, for building the Born Free Foundation to what it is today. Thousands of people in the audience enjoyed the music and comedy which led up to a rousing finale of the song "Born Free" led by Kiki Dee and Bryan Adams with participation from all the cast.
CARMELO LUGGERI, KIKI DEE AND BRYAN ADAMS LEAD THE FINALE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL  PETER ANDRE, RULA LENSKA AND KIKI DEE SING "BORN FREE"  GARY WITH THE WONDERFUL VIRGINIA MCKENNA  GARY WITH (FROM LEFT) DAVE CURREY, KIKI DEE, RULA LENSKA  GARY WITH JENNY SEAGROVE _______ We have added a new page Original Sales which will keep you updated on any of Gary's originals coming on the market. _______ The Orangutan Foundation (OF) have produced a fine bone china mug - a great stocking filler or gift - using Gary's drawing Plea for the Rainforest. All proceeds go to OF and it can be bought from their website (see links).  _______ Check
out the new page on Ibiza. ________ Gary was recently a judge
for the annual Wildlife Artist of the Year organised by the David Shepherd
Wildlife Foundation. Gary has this to say about it: “I felt the overall standard of this year’s “Wildlife Artist of the Year” show at the Mall Galleries was even better than last year. The eight judges, including myself, spent quite a few hours deliberating before finally deciding on the category winners and the coveted main prize-winner.  DAVID GOWER TALKS TO A
CAPACITY CROWD AT THE MALL GALLERIES, LONDON "The private view was buzzing and filled to capacity with 500+ art lovers. I was there with my great friends, sisters Anna Lubienska and Rula Lenska and met up with many old familiar faces from the past. A surprise guest was the ever youthful Rolf Harris who I compared beards with: he won by a mile!
ROLF HARRIS AND GARY
COMPARE BEARDS WHILE DAVID SHEPHERD WATCHES
PHOTO: ANNA LUBIENSKA "In the same Gallery was also hung “The Three Generations” exhibition, David and Mandy Shepherd and David’s equally talented grand-daughter, Emily Lamb. Her paintings are so full of vitality and colour.
RULA LENSKA AND GARY AT
THE WILDLIFE ARTIST OF THE YEAR SHOW 2009
PHOTO: ANNA LUBIENSKA "The combined two shows raised in the region of £30,000 for wildlife and plans are already underway for next year’s event. I’m excited to have been asked back again as a judge for 2010.” ________ Three of Gary's older drawings have been added to Gallery Two - they are Polar Bear Swimming, Sabu and Heat and Dust. The Polar Bear Swimming is a personally signed UNlimited edition and sells for just £30 in the Shop. Gary's latest drawing "Majesty" - a Royal Bengal Tiger portrait is now finished and Gary has signed and numbered both the paper and canvas limited editions. You can read more about this drawing here and order in the shop. The lower numbers will be sent out first and delivery is now available for both paper and canvas editions. This is the first of a series Gary is drawing of wild cat's heads. They would look wonderful on a wall together! Keep an eye on this page for the first glimpse of the next drawing.
See below for the first two
"unfinished" updates just a week apart.
Gary has just finished the drawing of cat's eyes - a snow leopard's eyes - that he has created especially for the banner for this new website. He has also spent considerable time overseeing the design and content of the website and added his own personal bits in the gallery. ________
The museum is home to an
extraordinary collection of art inspired by the natural world. Besides Gary, artists
include Sir Peter Scott, David Shepherd, Simon Coombes, Pablo Picasso and the
art of 600 artists from over 50 countries. Well worth a visit. To find out how to get
there: Tel: +44 (0)1452 731422 (Mon-Fri) or +44 (0)1452 733946 (Sat/Sun). ________ Gary's drawing George Adamson with Boy and Christian is
reproduced in Virginia McKenna's just published autobiography "The Life in
My Years". This beautiful book will inspire anyone who cares about the
future of the planet and all the creatures dependent on it, including human
beings. It is available from the Born Free Foundation. |
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