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Recognised as one of the world's leading wildlife artists, Pip has an international reputation for his oil paintings of big cats and African game animals. Nearly thirty of his paintings have been successfully auctioned by Christies and Sotheby's international auctioneers and in May 2008, Christies sold his painting 'Flight of the Zebras' for the record price of £29,300.00 ($57,985.00)
Pip is also the founder of the Marwell International Wildlife Art Society (MIWAS), Europe's largest wildlife art society and has been the Chairman for the last thirteen years.
In 2004, he was filmed on location in Kenya and Marwell Zoological Park for the highly successful UK Meridian Television series 'A Brush With The Wild'. The series was presented by Anneka Rice and featured Pip teaching celebrities such as Nerys Hughes, Jenny Éclair, Christine Hamilton and Linda Robson how to paint.
Over fifty limited editions have been produced to date from Pip's paintings by major UK publishers and his work is currently published by Sally Mitchell Fine Art Ltd and licensed in the USA by Applejack Art Partners. Pip has also been organising safaris for artists and photographers to Northern Botswana and East Africa for many years.
Pip was appointed to the advisory panel of the popular Artists and Illustrators magazine in 2009 and is currently one of the official judges for the 'BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year' competition. He is also a member of the UK Fine Art Trade Guild, an elected member of the Society of Animal Artists in New York and a member of the 'Artists For Conservation' group in Canada.
Pip
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Art Gallery.
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Pip is a self-taught professional wildlife artist specialising in oil paintings of wildlife. He has organised and run varying and unique wildlife painting workshops for many years, lecturing and demonstrating techniques. Through his paintings he has also raised thousands of pounds for various wildlife causes, including the Dambari Field Research Station for Black Rhinos in Zimbabwe, Save The Tiger and the Epulu Okapi Game Reserve in Zaire.
Pip has travelled extensively overseas, having previously lived both in Central America and the Far East. He conducts regular field research trips abroad in order to study wildlife and habitat, camping in the Serengeti and Ngorongoro conservation area in Tanzania in 1999 and again under canvas in the remote Northern Botswana reserves of Chobe River, Savute and Okavango Delta in 2000. He returned to Botswana in September 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 on each occasion leading camping safaris for artists and photographers into this vast and unspoilt wilderness area. The 2004 expedition took eighteen individuals and lasted three weeks, travelling from Botswana into Zambia and back again.
Since turning professional, he has been the subject of several broadcasts by Meridian Television and has also featured in national newspapers and magazines. His paintings have been auctioned at each of the international Wildlife Art Auctions held by Christies and Sotheby's between 1998 and 2001, maintaining a 100% sale rate at Christies. His work won 'Best in Show' at the 2000 National Exhibition of Wildlife Art in Liverpool and 'Best painting by a Professional Artist' at the Paignton Zoo Wildart Open Exhibition in September 2001. His work has been published both as limited and open editions by major UK fine art publishers and distributed in the UK and abroad, with around thirty editions released in the last six years. Pip is also the subject of an hour long instructional painting video and DVD, filmed at Marwell Zoological Park in 2003 by Teaching Art Ltd.
In February 2004, Pip filmed on location in Kenya and at Marwell Zoological Park with Meridian Television for a new seven part television series, 'a Brush With The Wild'. The programme was devised by Pip, is presented by Anneka Rice and features 'Birds of a Feather' star Lesley Joseph, 'The Liver Birds' star Nerys Hughes and famous comedienne Helen Lederer. The first series was transmitted in April 2004 and achieved the highest viewing figures in the UK for a regional programme at the time. The second series of four episodes has been filmed, this time teaching television personality and author Christine Hamilton, novelist and comedienne Jenny Éclair and another 'Birds of a Feather' star Linda Robson. These episodes will be broadcast during Christmas week 2004.
Pip is the founder and Chairman of the Marwell International Wildlife Art Society, which has grown rapidly into the largest and most successful wildlife art society in the UK, with nearly three hundred artist members. It is also the only zoo based art society in Britain or within the National Federation of Zoos.
He has been the 'Artist-in-Residence' at Marwell Zoological Park in Hampshire since January 1999, the first time such a position has been held there. He is a council member of Marwell Zoological Society (13,000+ members), an Associate Professional of the SAA (UK), a member of the Fine Art Trade Guild and an elected member of the prestigious 'Society of Animal Artists' in New York, USA.