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| On March 28, 2007, UK artist Pollyanna Pickering and her daughter/manager Anna-Louise Pickering departed for Bhutan sketch and paint the rare flora and fauna of this largely undisturbed region of the Himalayas.
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Pollyanna Pickering
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Exhibition : Animal Art Adventure
Date: Thursday, February 07, 2013 to Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Location: Weaver Hall Museum 162 London Road Northwich Cheshire UK
Details: Journey around the globe with this exhibition of animal art by some of the world's leading wildlife artists, including Pollyanna Pickering and David Shepherd. Animal Art Adventure aims to use art to celebrate the efforts of conservation groups around the world which work to improve the lives of injured and orphaned wildlife. It features paintings, sculptures, photographs and prints of wild animals that have been nursed back to health and helped to return to the wild. A percentage of all sales will benefit the Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre.
Admission is free.
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Talk: Pollyanna Pickering : Giant Pandas and Sleeping Dragons
Date: Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Location: Victoria Hall Grange over Sands LA11 6DP UK
Details: Enjoy Pollyanna’s heart warming talk about her first journey into China to paint Giant Pandas in the wild. Working in a clinic for sick pandas in the Tibetan Borderlands she helped care for a six month old orphaned baby panda – this hands on experience giving her an opportunity which has never been shared by any other wildlife artist to sketch and paint one of the world’s most endangered – and beloved – baby animals in such close proximity.
Tickets £4.00 (Adults) £2.00 (Juniors and Students) Available at the door of the venue on the evening.
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Talk: Pollyanna Pickering : Giant Pandas and Sleeping Dragons
Date: Monday, March 11, 2013
Location: Quaker Meeting House 10 St James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW UK
Details: Part of the Darlington Lecture Society's annual programme. Join Pollyanna on one of her most remarkable journeys to paint endangered species, as she travels into China to study and paint Giant Pandas. Accompanied by her daughter and business partner Anna-Louise, she journeyed into one of the remotest areas of the Tibetan Borderlands in her quest to paint one of the most beautiful and elusive of all animals. The two became the first two western women ever to travel into one of the mountain reserves, where they were lucky enough to be able to work in a small hospital for sick pandas. This enchanting talk tells the story of their journey through this enigmatic and beautiful country, and shows the spectacular paintings which resulted from the trip. Tickets £5.00 (Adults) £3.00 (Juniors and Students)
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Talk : Pollyanna Pickering : The Eye of the Tiger
Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013
Location: The Grosvenor Museum 27 Grosvenor Street Chester Cheshire UK
Details: Pollyanna is pleased to return by popular demand to the Chester Society of Natural Science Literature & Art to present a talk which includes her account of the closest encounter with a wild tiger she has ever experienced! Join her in her quest to sketch and paint Bengal tigers in their natural habitat. She will speak about her travels into the foothills of the Himalayas in the North of India to paint Bengal Tigers. Here she stayed and worked with anti-poaching rangers in the heart of a project tiger reserve. In order 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! Tickets £4.00 available on the door. Contact Mrs Croston 01244 35955 for further details.
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Talk : Pollyanna Pickering : A Brush With Willdife
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Location: Village Hall 23 Main Street Cottesmore Oakham LE15 7DH UK
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This is a fundraising event for The Cinnamon Trust – a charity which operates throughout the United Kingdom and is the only specialist charity for elderly and terminally ill people and their pets. If you know someone who can no longer look after their dearly loved dog, cat or budgie, or is looking for a residential home where animals are welcome, the Cinnamon Trust will probably be able to help. The Trust relies completely on donations and the support of volunteers. Pollyanna will talk about her 15 years of caring for, and rehabilitating, birds and animals in her own sanctuary, Brookvale Bird Rescue, and the paintings she produced which resulted from working in close contact with them. This special version of her talk will also include information about the many projects supported by her charitable Foundation worldwide.
Tickets cost just £15.00 to include Pollyanna’s talk and a buffet lunch (catered by the ladies of the Women’s Institute). The event will be rounded off with tea or coffee and homemade cakes!
To book contact Mrs Foers 01572 813134
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The Art of Poetry
Date: Friday, March 22, 2013 to Monday, April 29, 2013
Location: Obsidian Art Layby Farm Old Risborough Road, Stoke Mandeville, Bucks, UK
Details: Pollyanna Pickering will be including recent original paintings in this exhibition in which artists have been invited to create a piece of art inspired by a poem. Pollyanna has selected poems by Richard Bonfield – the poet she collaborated with on the acclaimed book ‘Wildness’. This exciting exhibition will take place alongside World Book Night.
The gallery is open daily from 10am to 5pm, and 12noon to 4pm on Sundays and Bank Holidays.
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Talk: Pollyanna Pickering : Temples, Tigers and a Bear called Polly
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Location: Winding Wheel Holywell Street Chesterfield S41 7SA UK
Details: Pollyanna is pleased to return by popular demand to her ‘regular’ slot as the final Speaker in the Winding Wheel’s celebrated annual lecture series, to give an extended version of her most recent talk.
Join Pollyanna as she works hands on with tigers and elephants, and treks through remote jungles in search of endangered species. The highlight of Pollyanna’s journey was a visit to a wonderful sanctuary in Vietnam which is now home to Polly, the Asiatic moonbear rescued by her charitable foundation. Hear Polly’s heart warming story, and meet some of the other residents of this special place, high in the cloud covered Tam Dao mountains.
Tickets : Adults: £6.20 Concessions £4.75 Box Office 01246 345222
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The Association of Animal Artists Exhibition in Support of The Pollyanna Pickering Foundation
Date: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 to Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Location: Castle Park Arts Centre, Castle Park, Frodsham, Cheshire. UK
Details: The Association of Animal Artists has selected The Pollyanna Pickering Foundation as the major beneficiary of their exhibition at the Castle Park Arts Centre, set in beautiful parkland in the historic town of Frodsham.
The Centre houses three galleries – all of which will be exhibiting work by the AAA – as well as craft units and a coffee shop serving freshly made light lunches.
The Association of Animal Artists Annual Exhibition is fast becoming essential viewing for all those with a love of the animal kingdom and the art that celebrates it. AAA artists are unique in that they create work of all animals (not just wildlife), whether in the air, on land or in water, in any medium or style, and they are positively encouraged to explore and enjoy their creativity.
This leads to a varied, dynamic and stimulating, yet sensitive, exhibition full of outstanding examples of animal art from both award-winning professionals to talented amateur artists with an abiding passion for art and for animals of all kinds.
The AAA hope that their celebration of the natural world will hopefully encourage visitors to SEE, and not just to look, while offering the chance to purchase beautiful examples of this important contemporary art form and raising funds for their conservation charity partners. A full programme of art workshops and art rendezvous will take place throughout the event – details to be announced.
Open Mon–Sat 10am - 4pm Sun 2pm - 4.00 pm
Entry is Free
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Pollyanna Pickering - Painting Demonstration
Date: Saturday, April 06, 2013
Location: Castle Park Arts Centre, Castle Park, Frodsham, Cheshire UK
Details: Pollyanna will be including a selection of recent original paintings in the AAA exhibition, and on the 6th April will be spending the full day at the centre working on a series of demonstration paintings. Visitors will be welcome to watch Pollyanna at work, and chat to her about her paintings, techniques and subjects. The event will be very informal, and you will be welcome to drop in at any time during the day.
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Talk : Pollyanna Pickering : Beypond the Great Wall
Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Location: St. Leonard’s Community Centre, Bramcote Lane, Wollaton, NG8 2ND UK
Details: Pollyanna will be presenting her talk about her return expedition into China to study and paint the giant panda to the Wollaton Natural History Society. Visitors will be welcome, admission for non-members is £5. To book tickets 'phone 0115 939 7023 or 0115 928 3679. Early booking is recommended.
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Pollyanna Pickering - Painting Demonstration
Date: Sunday, June 09, 2013
Location: Patchings Art Gallery Oxton Road Calverton, Nottingham UK
Details: Pollyanna is very pleased to have been invited to return as a guest celebrity artist on the final day of Patchings annual four day international art, craft and design festival which features over 200 exhibitors. She will have a selection of paintings on exhibition, and will be working on demonstration paintings throughout the day.
Tickets cost £8.50 (including a festival brochure & parking) on the door (concessions £7.50) – but you can save £1.00 by booking in advance. Tickets can be purchased over the telephone 0115 965 3479 and from the Patchings On-Line Shop - www.patchingsartcentre.co.uk There is ample parking at the gallery, and visitors can also enjoy lunch or a snack in Café Patchings.
“Enjoy a great day out amongst some of the most creative people in Art, Craft and Design”
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Pollyanna Pickering Exhibition : Last Chance to Paint
Date: Saturday, June 22, 2013 to Sunday, July 07, 2013
Location: The Gallery Brookvale House Oaker Matlock Derbyshire DE4 2JJ (AA Signposted) Admission Free
Details: Inspired by the book and subsequent television series ‘Last Chance to See...’ Pollyanna has created a remarkable new collection of paintings of endangered species. In 1989 author Douglas Adams (best known for the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Series of books) and zoologist Mark Carwardine made a series of BBC radio documentaries travelling to various locations in the hope of encountering species on the brink of extinction. A book of the same name was published the following year. In 2009, the BBC aired a television follow-up series, with Stephen Fry (left, with Pollyanna) replacing the late Adams as Mark Carwardine’s travelling companion. Pollyanna's determination to paint only animals which she has observed in their natural habitats has also lead her into a unique series of travelling across five continents in her quest to observe some of the rarest animals in the world. Pollyanna came to realise that she could be one of the very last artists to have the opportunity to paint some of our most threatened animals in the wild – from polar bears in the melting ice of the high arctic to Amur tigers in Siberia.
Pollyanna recognised a parallel between her painting expeditions and the journeys made by the Last Chance writers and broadcasters, and the way in which they are able to share their encounters with some of the world’s most vulnerable creatures – in her case through her award winning artwork. This exhibition will include the very first paintings from her recent treks into the Virunga Mountains in Rwanda to observe mountain gorillas, as well as images from recent travels through the wilderness areas of Vietnam and Thailand.
Two new limited edition prints will be exclusively launched during the exhibition. Also on display throughout will be Pollyanna's extensive ranges of greetings cards, fine art and limited edition prints, and a wide variety of gift ware featuring her designs. There will even be a sneak preview of some of Pollyanna’s latest Christmas cards commissioned by charities including Guide Dogs for the Blind and The Blue Cross. Pollyanna will be on hand throughout to chat to visitors and sign copies of her popular books. Tea and coffee will be available throughout – visitors are also welcome to bring picnics to enjoy in the gardens.
Ten percent of all sales will donated to Conservation projects through the Pollyanna Pickering Foundation.
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Pollyanna Pickering - Painting Demonstration
Date: Friday, July 19, 2013
Location: Gordale Garden Centre on the Wirral Penninsula halfway between Chester and Heswell on the A540
Details: In 2013, The National Exhibtion of Wildlife Art will celebrate 20 years of excellence in wildlife art, and to mark the occasion they are staging a variety of demonstrations etc. in a special Art Marquee. Pollyanna will be a guest in the Marquee on the opening day of the exhibition, when she will be working on a demonstration painting throughout the day, and chatting to visitors about her work, as well as signing copies of her books, cards and prints.
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Society of Feline Artist's Annual Exhibition
Date: Thursday, August 22, 2013 to Friday, September 13, 2013
Location: Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, 124 - 126 The Cut, Waterloo, London (opposite the Old Vic theatre)
Details: As a signature member Pollyanna Pickering will again be including original paintings including the snow leopard above) in the Society of Feline Artist’s annual exhibition which celebrates cats of every type - from domestic kittens to big cats in the wild. This Exhibition is an important date for the London Diary, and is keenly anticipated by cat lovers and collectors around the world
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