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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 announces exhibition in support of Born Free |
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This summer, Pollyanna will be proud to present the first public exhibition of a new collection of paintings inspired by the work of the Born Free Foundation, who are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year.
The exhibition will be one of the official events in the Foundations silver jubilee calendar. Through a perecentage of sales, combined with a prize draw for an original painting, Pollyanna is aiming to raise at least $25,000.00 to help launch the Born Free's major anniversary project - a new widlife sanctuary in Eithiopia.
The Born Free Foundation is a dynamic international wildlife charity, devoted to compassionate conservation and animal welfare. They take action worldwide to protect threatened species and stop individual animal suffering. Born Free was founded by actress and conservationist Virginia McKenna and her late husband Bill Travers.
Pollyanna first worked with Born Free In 1990 when she travelled to the Bhannaghatta reserve in Southern India to paint five tigers rescued from appalling conditions in a roadside circus and flown to this sanctuary by the charity. The story of her remarkable journey to find the tigers is told in the book ‘The Eye of the Tiger', for which Virginia McKenna wrote the foreword. Pollyanna has returned to her original sketches to complete a brand new series of paintings of the Born Free Tigers especially for this anniversary event. Virginia also contributed the foreword to Pollyanna's first book Giant Pandas and Sleeping Dragons" – both will be available in the gallery throughout the exhibition.
Since then, Pollyanna has been pleased to continue to support the work of Born Free – she has painted exclusive Christmas cards for the Foundation and was delighted to join them at their 21st anniversary celebrations at the Royal Geographical Society in 2005. The Pollyanna Pickering Foundation has also been able to contribute funding towards several of their projects, including purchasing equipment for their Orphan Polar Bear rescue project (this rescue scheme based in Canada is the only project which aims to re-release orphaned polar bears back into the wild), and providing funding for the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Project, which vaccinates this vulnerable species against rabies.
Last year Pollyanna travelled to South Africa where she visited Born Free's Big cat sanctuary at Shamwari to sketch lions and leopards rescued from zoos, circuses and other captive facilities,now at home under the African sun. Pollyanna was delighted to meet the wonderful people working with the big cats at the centre, and to see the enclosures donations from her Foundationhelped to build! Her first paintings of these cats will be included in this exhibition, alongside a series of works inspired by Joy Adamson's original books.
In April 2009 she will visit Ethiopia to meet the project director of the proposed new wildlife rescue centre.
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