Gorilla swinging his way to the English Riviera

My gorilla 'Five minutes to midnight' for Great Gorillas will be swinging his way down to the English Riviera very soon.

 

The trail runs from 3rd August until 13th Oct and will include the wonderful miniature version of the trail at Babbacombe Model Village

 

 

There will also be a spectacular Gorilla Flotilla along the coast on 23rd July which I hope to get along to and meet everyone from the hard working Great Gorillas team and my kind sponsors Wollen Michelmore.

Really looking forward to the summer, I'm sure Great Gorillas will be hugely popular and hopefully raise lots of funds for the brilliant gorilla conservation work of Paignton Zoo

Great Gorillas update

Managing Partner Chris Hart, from my Gorilla's sponsor Wollen Michelmore dropped in to the studio to see work in progress on Five Minutes to Midnight

 

A great fun addition to the event, Great Gorillas have just announced that Babbacombe Model Village will feature a miniature trail of the gorillas in their gardens during the summer as well.

 

 

I was also very pleased to learn that Five Minutes to Midnight has been chosen as one of the designs from Great Gorillas to be produced as a miniature ceramic figurine. He will be available locally and from the Wild in Art web shop when the trail goes out in August.

 

Great Gorillas

From  Wild in Art comes another wonderful public art project which supports endangered animals.

Great Gorillas is organised to celebrate the 90th birthday of Paignton Zoo . Funds raised by the sale of the gorilla sculptures will go to support wildlife conservation including the Cross Rivers Gorilla Project.
The gorilla sculptures will form a trail around Exeter and the English Riviera for 10 weeks starting on Aug 3rd.

My design 'Five Minutes to Midnight' aka Smiley has kindly been sponsored by the South Devon Law Firm Wollen Michelmore

The concept for the design is inspired by the saying 'Five minutes to Midnight' from the symbolic Doomsday clock which heralds impending disaster.....in this case the urgency to conserve the endangered Western Lowland Gorilla. It incorporates a variety of clock faces showing the times as five minutes to midnight. The smiley face watch with no hands symbolises hope and action!

Watch this space for work in progress pics and news updates about the project.

Support the Elephant Family campaign

I've really enjoyed creating designs for the Elephant Parade sculptures over the past 3 years and hope to work with them again in the future. I'm particularly pleased that money raised from the parades goes to support the work of the Elephant Family charity to save Asian elephants.

          'Mosha the world at your feet'
which I painted for the Copenhagen Elephant Parade


The Elephant Family help the endangered Asian elephant in a number of ways including preserving the natural habitat of the elephant. Sadly 13 elephant have been killed on railway lines in India in the past fortnight alone and today the charity asked for people to sign a letter to the Indian Railways Minister, to support the call to put speed restrictions on the railways going through elephant habitat.

If you would like to support this cause or help Asian Elephants in other ways please go to
/http://www.elephantfamily.org/what-we-do/campaigns/railways/

Home at last

 

I'm so happy to see Midnight Rose has settled into her new home at Elephant Communications...seen here sunning herself!
http://newsdesk.elephantcommunications.co.uk/news/view/midnight-rose-completes-her-journey-50398

Midnight Rose is off to her new home

It's been great fun working with Guy Bellamy and I'm thrilled that Midnight Rose has gone off to Elephant Communications to be their 'Office Elephant' now she's finished.

Progress on Midnight Rose

I'm now getting stuck in to painting the life size elephant Midnight Rose. She stands about 1.4m high in this sitting position, which is about the size of a 5 year old baby elephant I think. She's ceratinly filling my studio and not leaving me much room to move!

The design is created especially for Guy Bellamy and 'Elephant Communications', http://elephantcommunications.co.uk/ a vibrant new company in corporate and consumer PR, who also support the Elephant Parade's work to help conserve the Asian Elephant. http://www.elephantparade.com/