Hare on TV!

Look out for my 'Harelequin' hare who will be making a guest appearance on local TV tonight, Friday 28th Feb at 6.30pm when BBC Points West do a feature on the Cirencester Hare Festival.
Only 1 month to go until the trail starts and Harelequin goes to Ingleside House

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.

 

Elephant Parade is going to Singapore

The Elephant Parade is now heading to Singapore!

100 individually designed elephants will adorn the streets of the Lion City from 11/11/11. They will be auctioned in January 2012 by Sotheby's to raise money in aid of the Asian Elephant Conservation projects throughout Asia.This will be the 9th Elephant parade worldwide which has seen well over 500 elephants painted, sculpted or decorated by hundreds of artists,designers and celebrities.

I was so excited having finished my elephant for the Copenhagen Parade earlier this year to be asked to design one for Singapore. I took my inspiration from the Jurong Bird Park, which is dedicated to conservation and the largest bird park in the world.

My elephant is called 'Love Song' after the love birds on the face and to remind us that we need to love our natural world, to love elephants. It has a spiral of a huge variety of colourful birds, which represents the need to conserve a wide variety of species in the wild to help sustain the natural habitat. There are red ribbons making heart shapes, and at the top of the spiral is a legendary

phoenix to also symbolise love and good luck.

Find out more about the Elephant Parades at http://elephantparade.com/

Bristol Gorilla update

Day 4

Day 3

Still frantically painting.

The sculpture has such character..he's taken over my studio!

Until you have the sculpture in front of you, it's impossible to design for the areas underneath and between legs etc. ...... I decided to keep the same level of detail going...must have been mad!