A Brush with Wildlife
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 Pollyana Pickering Foundation to be agreed
- Category:
- Nature
- Updated:
- 7th April 2024
- Tagged:
- British Wildlife | Willdife Art | Animals | Owls
Pollyanna’s work as a wildlife artist always brought her into close contact with real birds and animals (left). Alongside Anna-Louise, for fifteen years she ran a small sanctuary at her home to care for and rehabilitate injured wildlife. It was initially intended that she would care for owls, hawks, and falcons, but over the years she looked after many other birds and animals including foxes, squirrels and hedgehogs.
In A Brush with Wildlife Anna-Louise takes a light-hearted look at their life and work in the beautiful Peak District of Derbyshire. This talk tells the heart warming and often amusing stories of just a few of the many hundreds of creatures that passed through their care, and of course shows a selection of the sketches and paintings for which Pollyanna was so renowned.
‘Fascinating and warm-heated… Lavishly illustrated… this talk describes with touching clarity how Pollyanna was able to draw on these experiences to develop her artistic talent.’ Countryside magazine
Views: 328 | Enquiries: 2About 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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