Travels with a Wildlife Artist
Anna-Louise Pickering
- Organisation:
- The Pollyanna Pickering Foundation
- Region:
- Anywhere
- Notice Period:
- Regular (more than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Charity
- Fee:
- Paid: Donation to the Pollyanna Pickering Foundation to be arranged.
- Category:
- Nature
- Updated:
- 7th April 2024
From being presented with an orphaned bear cub as a gift on her 21st birthday to being charged by a komodo dragon, for Anna-Louise life working alongside Pollyanna was never dull.
In this light hearted talk she tells new stories of life and work alongside Pollyanna from her perspective. Not many careers involve requests to organise expeditions to Ethiopia to search for the world’s rarest wolf, or to take a bucket of live toads to a TV studio.
But equally few provide the opportunities to bottle feed an orphaned six month old baby panda bear or to photograph wild jaguars from a boat in the wilds of Brazil.
Find out why Anna-Louise says being the assistant to a wildlife artist is the best job in the world…
“The audience were mesmerised as huge pictures taken during the expeditions were projected onto the screen…….. Pollyanna’s daughter is an excellent public speaker” (Nottingham Post)
Views: 174 | Enquiries: 0About Anna-Louise Pickering
Anna-Louise Pickering is a writer and photographer and Conservationist. For over 25 years she worked alongside her late mother the wildlife artist Pollyanna Pickering. Pollyanna was passionate about only painting animals she had seen and sketched in their natural habitats, a quest which lead to her painting on all seven continents.
Anna-Louise accompanied her on every journey – she has canoed through crocodile infested rivers, travelled by dog sled in the High Arctic, camping on the ice at temperatures of -40, and been charged by a wild tiger in search of her subjects.
She is now pleased to present a series of light hearted, highly acclaimed talks about her life and work with Pollyanna, their expeditions to find endangered species in some of the most remote areas of the globe and their close contact with wildlife which inspired Pollyanna’s enchanting artwork.
All talks raise funds for Pollyanna’s charitable Foundation which supports international conservation and wildlife rescue. All the talks are illustrated.
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