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Pip is one of Europe's leading wildlife artists with an international reputation for his oil paintings of big cats and African game. He is the 'Artist in Residence' at Marwell Zoological Park in Hampshire and founder and Chairman of the Marwell International Wildlife Art Society, currently the largest wildlife art society in Europe. His original paintings have been sold at Christies and Sotheby's wildlife art auctions and over fourty limited editions have been published from his paintings by major UK fine art publishers. He has travelled extensively, having lived in both the Far East and Central America. For several years he has been organising and leading camping safaris for wildlife artists and photographers to the remote game reserves of Northern Botswana. In 2003, he was filmed at Marwell Zoological Park for an instructional oil painting video and DVD.
In 2004, Pip devised and was the subject of a seven part painting series on Meridian television called "A Brush With The Wild". The series was presented by Anneka Rice and included celebrity guests Christine Hamilton, Lesley Joseph, Nerys Hughes, Helen Lederer, Linda Robson and Jenny Eclaire and was filmed on location at Marwell Zoological Park in Hampshire (England) and Kenya.
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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.