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 PickeringHonMUniv NDD AFC SOFA Painter of the Living World
Pollyanna's painting ‘A Flash of Turquoise blue' is to be the cover image for a new anthology of poems inspired by the natural world.
Pollyanna was one of the guests at a special launch event for the book ‘Animated Nature' on March 6th, where a selection of her paintings were also exhibited. The author Richard Bonfield is the official Poet in Residence of the Born Free Foundation, and their founder Virginia McKenna introduced him to Pollyanna knowing they would appreciate each other's work. Speaking of his appointment as poet in residence to the Foundation Virginia said : "The beauty and vulnerability of nature, the need to live in harmony with other creatures, their plight when we don't – all this is expressed in the most poignant, perceptive and original language. How fortunate we are to have such a person to help the animals and inspire us."
