Pip McGarry
Wildlife Artist
B. 1955. British
Pip is a self-taught professional wildlife artist with an international
reputation. He has been the ‘Artist-in-Residence’
at Marwell Zoological Park in Hampshire since 1998 and is the
founder and Chairman of ‘Marwell International Wildlife
Art Society’ (MIWAS), currently the largest wildlife art
society in Europe.
For a number of years he has led an annual camping safari for
artists and photographers into the remote game reserves of Northern
Botswana. His September 2007 trip took a group of nineteen adventurers
to explore the Kalahari and Okavango Delta and his 2008 trip to
Tanzania is already full. Pip has travelled extensively and has
lived both in Central America and the Far East. He conducts regular
field research trips abroad in order to study the wildlife and
habitat in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Over twenty of Pip’s paintings have been successfully sold
at Christies International auctions, with a painting of a cheetah
cub fetching a record price in May 2007. Many of his paintings
have been reproduced as international fine art editions by De
Montfort Fine Art and Rosenstiels and he has recently joined the
well known UK publisher, Sally Mitchell Fine Art Ltd. Pip is also
represented by Applejack Licensing in the USA.
In 2003, he filmed and presented on location at Marwell Zoological
Park for an hour long instructional painting video and DVD for
Teaching Art Ltd, the largest producer of tutorial videos in the
UK.
In 2004, Pip was filmed on location in Kenya and at Marwell Zoological
Park by Meridian Television for the highly successful television
series, ‘A Brush With The Wild’. The programme was
presented by Anneka Rice and featured Pip teaching celebrities
such as Christine Hamilton, Jenny Éclair, Lesley Joseph
and Nerys Hughes how to paint wildlife.
Pip’s monthly series ‘How To Paint Wildlife’
can currently be read in the BBC Wildlife magazine. He is a member
of the UK Fine Art Trade Guild and an elected member of the prestigious
‘Society of Animal Artists’ in New York, USA.
The Colomb Art Gallery currently
has a number of original paintings by the artist Pip
McGarry