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.
Pip first came to prominence in 2004, with his popular seven-part television series on Meridian Television called 'A Brush With The Wild', which was presented by Anneka Rice. The programme was filmed on location both in Kenya and at Marwell Zoological Park in Hampshire, with Pip teaching celebrities such as Christine Hamilton, Helen Lederer, Linda Robson, Jenny Eclair, Nerys Hughes and Lesley Joseph how to paint wildlife. Their paintings were sold at the annual Marwell art exhibition with the proceeds going towards the park's ongoing work with endangered species. The series was very successful with the highest ratings of any regional series shown at that time.
Pip was the official 'Artist In Residence' at Marwell Zoological Park in Hampshire for over twenty six years. Pip was also the founder and Chairman of the Marwell International Wildlife Art Society (MIWAS) which operated very successfully for sixteen years, growing to become Europe's largest wildlife art society with over 300 members. The huge, highly successful annual exhibition became a significant feature of Marwell's events programme and ran for sixteen years before closing. MIWAS was the inspiration behind the Southern Nature Art exhibition which followed after in Wickham in Hampshire. In 2015, Marwell purpose-built a large art gallery in their retail outlet to exclusively house Pip's oil paintings and pencil sketches on a permanent basis.
Teaching Art filmed Pip at Marwell Zoological Park for a tutorial DVD in 2003 and a further tutorial DVD at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in 2013. Many sections of the tutorials were shown on mainstream television through the Drawing and Painting channel.
Pip has organised and led over thirty safaris for more than 300 individual artists and photographers to the remote and unspoilt wildernesses of northern Botswana, north and south Tanzania and Kenya. He has witnessed some extra-ordinary wildlife spectacles and has spent approximately a full year camping in the African bush. Pip has also lived in Central America and the Far East.
Over 150 of Pip's paintings have been successfully auctioned by major national and international auction houses such as Christie's and Sotheby's, both in the UK and overseas. He currently holds the record sale price at auction for a living British wildlife artist, which was achieved at Christies in May 2008, when his painting 'Flight of the Zebra' sold for £29,600.00.
Several of Pip's paintings have been presented to his Royal Highness the Sultan of Oman and now hang in his private collection.
Pip has held numerous solo exhibitions in UK galleries – for example: Colomb Art Gallery Marylebone; Omell Galleries, Ascot; Tallantyre Gallery, Morpeth and Trew Art Gallery in Claygate. His respective 2013 and 2014 solo exhibitions at the Haddon galleries, Torquay and The Frame Gallery Odiham both produced record six figure sales. Latterly, his painting 'Leap Of Faith' was sold for £80,000 ….and 'The Path Ahead' and 'Night of The Leopard' were also sold for £85,000 each.
More recently, he has held several successful solo exhibitions with the famous Clarendon Galleries, on board Cunard's cruise ship Queen Victoria.. and in April 2025, he held his first solo exhibition aboard Cunard's flagship ocean liner Queen Mary 2, selling more than twenty original paintings during the four day show.
Pip is an experienced judge and art adjudicator. For four years in a row, Pip was one of the organisers and a judge of the BBC 'Wildlife Artist of the Year' competition – the prize for the winning artists was a free two week safari with Pip in Botswana. In addition, Pip has been a judge for the National Exhibition of Wildlife Art, The Wildlife Society International (TWASI) and the Marwell International Wildlife Art Society (MIWAS) and many other local exhibitions.
Over seventy limited editions of his work have been reproduced by major fine art publishers, such as De Montfort Fine Art and Sally Mitchell Fine Art. Pip has now rejoined the Clarendon Galleries, the UK's largest gallery chain and art dealer and his paintings can be found throughout the 100+ Clarendon Gallery outlets in the UK. His original work can also be viewed aboard the Cunard cruise ship fleet, on display in the Clarendon Galleries maritime collection, where he has held several successful sell out exhibitions.
Over the course of Pip's professional career, Pip has conservatively raised in the region of £200,000 for wildlife conservation and animal welfare, including Marwell Wildlife; DSWF Art For Survival; Lion Aid (Christies of London); Animals Asia; Sketch For Survival and various other wildlife charities.