JULIA CASSELS
Watercolour
The most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.
Sir Peter Scott
British ornithologist, conservationist and artist, founder of The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) and co-founder of World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Award winning wildlife artist, Julia Cassels has just returned from Zambia where she has been with Game Rangers International (GRI) as their Artist in Residence.*
To use her art for wildlife conservation is not only important for Julia, but an integral part of her work. She campaigns enthusiastically on this cause which is close to her heart, and for her it has become a privilege to use her work to raise funds and awareness in this way.
Forever evolving and pushing forward, she is never more at home than painting en plein air in the African bush, sketchbook in hand with wildlife in the landscape in front of her. With a natural ability to observe, and working freely with swift fluid strokes of pencil and brush, she captures the moment with a unique immediacy.
Half of the joy of painting is the feeling of actually being there in time and place, whether in the African bush, on a bonnet of a land rover, in a Spanish hilltop village square or the shore of an estuary. I love to instil some of that ‘feeling’ into my paintings.
Observation is key to Julia’s painting process, with many sketchbooks full of studies, drawings and lines of movement that she works up into complete paintings, choosing between watercolour, ink or oil to express her subjects. Her fluid approach, for which she is now well known, is portrayed beautifully through the spontaneity of her watercolours, or the more substantial challenges of oils.
Having travelled widely across continents, living and working for several years in Nepal and Africa, she now lives in England, painting from her Hampshire studio, tutoring art workshops and courses and painting holidays worldwide. Julia’s work is found in collections across the world. This is her 4th solo show with Cricket Fine Art.
Nicholas Leigh 2022
Watercolour
CRICKET FINE ART
the pleasure of your company at the PRIVATE VIEW of
JULIA CASSELS
*GRI is a non-profit organisation established in Zambia (2008) working in close partnership with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife. Their holistic approach embraces programmes across three core areas: Community Outreach, Game Ranger Resource Protection Programme (RPP) and Wildlife Rescue. Under the Wildlife Rescue Programme, GRI’s Elephant Orphanage was established earlier in 2007 and has grown to support a number of additional wildlife species over the years. With the Elephant Nursery in Lusaka and a Release Facility in Kafue National Park, the orphans are gradually reintegrated back into the wild. For further information please visit gamerangersinternational.org
at 2 Park Walk, London SW 10 0 AD
Tuesday 15 th November
Exhibition dates: 16 th November - 2 nd December 2022
Paintings are for sale on receipt of this catalogue
The entire exhibition can be viewed online at www.cricketfineart.co.uk
front cover Tiger Tiger
49 × 70 cm £2,500 back cover Towards the Acacias
33 × 51 cm £990 LONDON
2022 6 – 8pm
WILD
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2 3 A Trio of Ostriches Watercolour 48 × 68.5 cm £2,500 Into the Distance Oil on canvas 76 × 101 cm £5,500
Nogorongoro (diptych)
4 5
Oil on canvas 101 × 152 cm £9,800 Cheetah Oil on canvas 35 × 45 cm £1,750 Racing Dhows Oil on canvas 61 × 76 cm £3,750
6 7 Homeward Bound Watercolour and charcoal 74 × 103 cm £3,800 Lioness and Cub Watercolour 45 × 63 cm £2,350 Giraffe Journey Watercolour 48 × 68 cm £2,500 Sisters Oil on canvas 35 × 45 cm £1,750 Hornbill Watercolour 37 × 50 cm £950
8 9 Avocets Watercolour 41 × 61 cm £2,150 Flamingo Lake Watercolour 82.5 × 113 cm £4,200
10 11 Herding Goats Oil on canvas 40 × 40 cm £1,150 Wanderings Oil on canvas 40 × 40 cm £1,150 Maasai Mirage Oil on canvas 51 × 76 cm £3,450
12 13 Ebb Tide Oil on canvas 35 × 45 cm £1,750 Shoreline Oil on canvas 35 × 45 cm £1,750 Red Legs Oil on canvas 30 × 30 cm £1,100 Wings and Reflections Oil on canvas 76 × 101 cm £5,500 Lapwing Watercolour 34.5 × 48 cm £925
1415 Brothers Watercolour 45 × 65 cm £2,350 Awake Watercolour 45 × 68 cm £2,350 Crowned Cranes in the Clouds Oil on canvas 76 × 101 cm £5,500
16 17 Eurasian Crane I Watercolour 102 × 75 cm £3,750 Eurasian Crane II Watercolour 102 × 75 cm £3,750 Eurasian Crane III Watercolour 102 × 75 cm £3,750 Pelicans at Dawn Watercolour 49 × 70 cm £2,500
Sadhu, Kathmandu
Mahout, Nepal
Watercolour
Chitwan Tiger,
Sunset across the Camargue
18 19
Nepal Watercolour 38 × 54 cm £1,200
27 × 39 cm £895
Watercolour 24 × 32 cm £795
Watercolour 49 × 70 cm £2,500
20 21 Lilac-Breasted Roller Watercolour 38 × 32 cm £895 Carmines Flying High Watercolour 33 × 48 cm £895 Elephants at Sundown Watercolour 49 × 70 cm £2,500 Leopard Oil on canvas 57 × 50 cm £3,250
22 23 Curiosity Indian ink 37 × 48 cm £1,450 Siesta Indian ink 30 × 50 cm £1,350 On the Prowl Indian ink 50 × 72 cm £2,200 Zanzibar Dhow Watercolour 39 × 54 cm £1,200 Lookout Watercolour 45 × 34 cm £925
Puffin Time
Sergeant Major
Indian
24
ink 35 × 48 cm £1,350 Bwana Indian ink 61 × 83 cm £2,200 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Art for Rhinos Anti-Poaching K9 Unit project in Hluhluwe-Imfolozi National Park, South Africa. Supported by Save the Rhino International.
Indian ink 33 × 38 cm £1,250 Ostriches Indian ink 20 × 49 cm £2,200
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