The Eye of the Tiger
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 agreed
- Category:
- Travel
- Updated:
- 7th April 2024
This talk about Pollyanna and Anna-Louise’s second expedition into India tells the story of their travels into the foothills of the Himalayas in the North where Pollyanna painted the increasingly endangered Royal Bengal Tiger.
Here they stayed and worked with anti-poaching rangers in the heart of a project tiger reserve. In order for Pollyanna to see and sketch her subjects first hand she was bounced, jolted, cut, bruised, scratched stung and bitten – and even charged by a wild tiger.
“I have had one or two scary moments over the years of travelling to paint endangered species” Pollyanna commented “but I have never experienced a fear like looking into the eyes of a snarling wild tiger from a distance of four feet.”
“The slide show had superb photography, the talk had an exciting story line and it just held everybody spellbound” (Leicester Mercury)
Views: 258 | Enquiries: 1About 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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