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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 hosts Born Free Thirtieth Anniversary Event |
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Tickets for the event sold out completely, and Pollyanna and Virginia spent the whole day signing copies of a specially created limited edition calendar in Pollyanna's crowded gallery. They were pleased to chat to visitors who had travelled the length and breadth of the UK - from the south coast to Scotland - to have the opportunity to purchase a calendar and view a specially staged exhibition of Pollyanna's work. Thanks to a day of beautiful sunshine, guests also enjoyed the opportunity to stroll round Pollyanna's landscaped 'African' gardens, while enjoying a glass of organic 'Wild Thing' wine - created by Vintage Roots, a donation is made to Born Free for every bottle sold.
There was also an opportunity to talk to special guest Will Travers OBE - the CEO of Born Free - about the wonderful work they carry out. He spent the whole day at the event, mingling with visitors. Born Free Poet in Residence Richard Bonfield also spent the day chatting to guests and signing his books of poetry.
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 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
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 and five years ago the Summer exhibition in Pollyanna’s gallery celebrated their 25th anniversary, and raised £12,000.00 for the charity.
Pollyanna has also twice 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 Foundation helped to build! Brand new paintings of these cats were included in this special one day exhibition, alongside a series of works inspired by Joy Adamson’s original books.
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