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 gives first presentation about AFC Flag Expedition
On the 17th September Pollyanna gave the first public presentation about her AFC expedition to Bhutan, to a packed house in Nottingham in the UK. A huge poster outside the venue proudly proclaimed the event as the ‘World Premier' of Pollyanna's new talk!
The lecture, 'Land of the Thunder Dragon' transported the audience with Pollyanna on her expedition across almost the entire width of the kingdom of Bhutan, from the Ha province in the east, right across to the borders of the Sakteng Wildlife reserve in the west, in her quest to find and paint the unique wildlife of this Himalayan region. The talk was illustrated with slides taken during the expedition by Pollyanna's daughter and business partner Anna-Louise, and included pages from Pollyanna's AFC journal, showing her sketches and notes. After the talk, Pollyanna and Anna-Louise took part in a very lively question and answer session.
Pollyanna will give her next presentation about the expedition to the Natural History unit of pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca in October.
