A Week of Wildlife Art

David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation

Week of Wildlife Art Event Magazine 2016

Mall Galleries, London, SW1 - June 28 -July 2

EVENT DETAILS: A Week of Wildlife Art Mall Galleries, London SW1 June 28 - July 2 Public Opening Times Tues 28 June - Sat 2 July 10-5pm (4pm Sat)

Entry by donation You can browse and buy from the full exhibition catalogue online at: www.davidshepherd.org

Welcome Welcome to ‘A Week of Wildlife Art’ the online magazine that celebrates the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation’s annual exhibition of wildlife art in London.

For the ninth consecutive year the exhibition runs at the Mall Galleries, London SW1 and includes three great exhibitions: Wildlife Artist of the Year in the Main and Threadneedle Gallery

Front Cover: Across the Wild by Florence Cadene

A Week of Wildlife Art is run by the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation - saving critically endangered mammals in the wild.

The Foundation is a registered charity no: 1106893

This exhibition is generously supported by Mr and Mrs Covey, Tilney Bestinvest, Barlow Robbins, Gary Hodges, Simon Trapnell, Elephant Communications and The Artist magazine For more information: Tel: 01483 272323 dswf@davidshepherd.org www.davidshepherd.org

Guest artists in the North Gallery Celebrity Tigers Auction and Artist Postcards in the Threadneedle Gallery All works are for sale with contributions from each helping to support the Foundation’s conservation projects in Africa and Asia to help save endangered wildlife.

It would be great to see you at the gallery this week. For more see: www.davidshepherd.org DSWF would like to thank photographers Adele Behles and Tom Aveling for their support at this event. Many of Adele’s pictures are featured in this publication.

A Week of Wildlife Art...

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Where else on earth can you find a red fox rummaging next to a herd of Prezewalski horses being watched, unblinking by a reclining young Bengal tiger? In a few elegant paces you can view the wonders of the wild world in magnificent colour and texture, diving below the waves with great white sharks and skimming the clouds with flocks of beautiful birds. This is the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation’s annual Week of Wildlife Art at the Mall Galleries – a celebration of the beauty of the natural world.

Hosting the foundation’s Wildlife Artist of the Year’s eclectic shortlist and work from award-winning guest artists, photographer Andy Skillen, sculptor Nick Mackman and illustrator Catherine Rayner London’s Mall Galleries is the place to visit this week.

This magazine glimpses at what’s on show and celebrates the winners of our wildlife art competition. All proceeds from sales not only support our work to protect critically endangered wildlife in Africa and Asia but the wonderful artists who contribute so passionately to what we do and to their art.

Fabulous guest artists

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Wildlife of the Year 2016

Around the exhibition

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Guest artists Wildlife Photographer Andy Skillen

A Lot to Learn - Introspection - Genesis - The King of Luangwa

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Guest artists Sculptor Nick Mackman

Illustrator Catherine Rayner

These are just a few of the guest artists works at the exhibition. All works by guest artists are for sale and benefit the work of the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation.

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Wildlife Artist of A sculptor based in Cher, France was crowned the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundations’ ( DSWF ) 2016 Wildlife Artist of the Year at a prize-giving event at the Mall Galleries in London tonight (June 27). Umberto accepted the £10,000 top prize from wildlife artist and conservationist, David Shepherd CBE and DSWF CEO, Sally Case.

Not quite believing that he had been named Wildlife Artist of the Year 2016, French sculptor Umberto was humble in is acceptance, preferring to let his work speak for him.

Commenting on the winning piece – a dramatic bronze of a ribbon eel, the judges said that it was wonderfully sensuous with a lightness contrasting with the weight of the bronze. “It’s beautifully smooth texture creates a very modern, original, evocation of wildlife art,” added judge, Sarah Barker.

A self-taught artist, Umberto practiced shooting and photographic development as an artistic media from the age of thirteen and for many years after.

Umberto worked professionally for ten years as a model maker for the show-business, advertising, layout and decoration industries. He then finally started working in an art foundry, at which time his sculptures became figurative and nature-focused. This was when he resolutely turned to the world of artistic creation and moved to the countryside where he set up his workshop and continues working today. Umberto has won many awards over the last thirteen years. His sculptures are exhibited and sold to fans and collectors worldwide.

The overall runner-up, an oil on canvas of a elephant entitled ‘Fading Giant’ by Italian artist Stefano Zagaglia was chosen because it depicted everything that the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation is trying to protect against in painted form. Judge, Hazel Soan said: “Without words it says ‘something grand is disintegrating before our eyes’ the white space will be all that is left.”

Full winners list: Overall Winner £10,000 sponsored by Mr & Mrs Covey: Ribbon Eel by Umberto (Cher, France) Runner up £1,000 artist residency for a week at Nature in Art, Gloucestershire. Sponsored by Simon Trapnell : Fading Giant by Stefano Zagaglia (Milan, Italy) Category winners: Animal Behaviour - a real understanding of animal behaviour and a sense of character.

Category Winner: Game Face On by Warren Cary (Hoedspruit , South Africa) Earth’s Beautiful Creatures – the judges were looking for not only beautifully executed original artworks but also imaginative interpretation, moving away from the purely photographic to compositions with great characterisation , showing imagination, originality and genuine creativity. Sponsored by Gary Hodges Category Winner: Maribou Portrait by Alan Woollett (Maidstone , Kent)

French Sculptor crowned

Wildlife Artist of the Year 2016

the Year 2016 Hidden World - the judges wanted to see a celebration of remote and rarely observed or lesser known landscapes and species – presented in memory of Derek Francis Category Winner: Boomslang by Dido Crosby (London, SW8 )

The Artist Magazine Award - selected by the editor of The Artist Magazine (feature article for the successful artist in The Artist magazine) Category Winner: Crossroads by Gunnar Tryggmo (Skane , Sweden)

Into the Blue - Illustrating the wonderful world of water, be it ocean, seashore, wetland, river or stream.

Category Winner: Heart of the Sea by Nick Oneill (Brighton)

Highly Commended:

Urban Wildlife – entries in an urban style or depicting the city life of animals and plants. Judges were looking for both originality in the habitat as well as the contrast between wild and urban life.

Category Winner: Unnatural Selection by Candice Bees (Newport, Wales) Vanishing Fast – showing our vanishing world – it can be any species officially listed as endangered or threatened on the IUCN Red List – or any a landscape that is at risk. Sponsored by Elephant Communications Category Winner: Siberian Crane by Naeenah Naeemaei (Tehran, Iran) Wings, Feathered or Otherwise –the extraordinary variety of winged wildlife – birds and insects, in flight or at rest. Sponsored by Barlow Robbins Category Winner: Sleep Tight by Tamara Pokorny (Baden-Wurttemberg , Germany) The David Shepherd Choice – the piece chosen

by David Shepherd CBE as his favourite in the competition Winner: The Sentinel by Laurence Saunois (Figeac, France)

Waiting by Jayne Perkins (Hampshire) Migration, Pure Theatre by Simon Conolly (Shropshire) Chains of Conservation by Matthew Polluk (Southall) Stepping out by Tor Hildyard (Evesham) Langur’s Tail by Claire Harkess (Perth) Avalanche by Johny Midnight ( Wandsworth ) Yellowtails by Paul Fearn (Horsham West Sussex) Wading In by Eileen Anderson ( Penrith ) The Thinker by Claudia Hahn (Cranleigh Surrey) Pygmy Rabbit by Dido Crosby (South Lambert) Poise by Tamara Pokorny (Germany) Flamboyant in Bloom by Radka Kirby (Prague) People’s Choice chosen by visitors to the exhibition and announced at the end of the week-long exhibition. Both the chosen artist and a winner drawn from visitors’ votes, win a prize.

PRIZE PURSE: Category winners each receive £500 Overall runner up receives £1,000 artist residency for a week at Nature in Art, Gloucestershire sponsored by Simon Trapnell Overall winner receives £10,000 generously sponsored

by Mr & Mrs Covey

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2016 Winners

Overall Winner Ribbon Eel by Umberto chosen for its wonderfully sensuous look with the great weight of the bronze contrasting with the lightness of form. Its beautifully smooth texture creates a very modern and original evocation of wildlife art.

Overall Runner-up Fading Giant by Stefano Zagaglia (above) It is the essence of everything DSWF works to protect in painted form.

Wings, Feathered or Otherwise Category Winner Sleep Tight by Tamara Pokorny (bat) An overall favourite of the judges, the piece was extraordinarily executed, and framed and beautifully thought out. Animal Behaviour Category Winner Game Face On by Warren Cary (lion) A beautiful, strong interpretation of an iconic and powerful species

Earth’s Beautiful Creatures Category Winner Maribou Portrait by Allan Woollett - Not one of nature’s beauties but this strong head depicts the warts and all of nature and contrasts with the softness of the pelage. Into the Blue Category Winner Heart of the Sea by Nick Oneill - A sophisticated and refreshing image that reflects the tone of the whole exhibition Hidden World Category Winner Boomslang by Dido Crosby (left) The simplicity of the piece and its accuracy are

Urban Wildlife Category Winner Unnatural Selection by Candice Bees (fox) the sculpture represents urban wildlife that is so familiar to us all using materials that reflect the urban environment as much as the subject itself. Vanishing Fast Category Winner Siberian Crane by Naeeneh Naeemaei represents the human responsibilty that we have to protect vulnerable 11

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David Shepherd Personal Choice The Sentinel by Laurence Saunois “I just loved it - it’s an image that has stuck with me since I first saw it” David Shepherd.

David Shepherd and Dr Sally Bulgin, Editor of the Artist Magazine

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artist The Artist Magazine - Editor’s Choice Award Crossroads by Gunnar Tryggmo (above) Watercolour at it’s best, capturing the real feel of safari.

Around the exhibition ...

If you would like any of the images shown in this magazine please send an email to vicky.flynn@davidshepherd.org and we will email you a .jpg

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Wildlife Artists at

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Browse and buy from the full exhibition here: www.davidshepherd.org

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Wildlife Artists at

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Browse and buy from the full exhibition here: www.davidshepherd.org

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Browse and buy until Saturday 2 July - 4pm

All sales support our work to protect endangered species in the wild. Find out more at www.davidshepherd.org

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TigerTime the DSWF campaign fighting to save the tiger in the wild www.tigertime.info TigerTime celebrity art auction bid for your favourite before midday on Monday July 4 and help save the tiger in the wild!

See them all at www.tigertime.info

Mirror Mirror by Laura Quinn

Fulfilling the Art of Conservation The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation saving critically endangered mammals in the wild www.davidshepherd.org