Pip McGarry
British Wildlife Artist
(b.1955) Singapore
Following a record price achieved at Christies auctions, London
May 2008, Pip McGarry is currently the second highest sold living
British wildlife artist at auction.
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 many years, Pip has led an annual camping safari for artists
and photographers into the remote game reserves of Northern Botswana.
In September 2007 he took a trip for nineteen adventurers to explore
the Kalahari and Okavango Delta. In 2008, his group of sixteen
visited the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. Pip has
also travelled extensively and has lived both in Central America
and the Far East.
Over twenty of Pip’s pictures have been successfully sold
by Christies and Sotheby’s at their international auctions,
with some achieving record prices. Many of his pictures have been
reproduced as fine art limited editions by De Montfort Fine Art
and Rosenstiels and his work is now published in the UK by Sally
Mitchell Fine Art. Pip is represented in the USA by Applejack
Licensing.
In 2003, he filmed and presented on location at Marwell Zoological
Park an hour long instructional painting video and DVD for Teaching
Art Ltd, the largest producer of art tutorial DVDs in the UK.
In 2004, Pip was filmed on location in Kenya and at Marwell Zoological
Park by Meridian Television for their 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 is an elected member of the prestigious ‘Society of
Animal Artists’ in New York, USA, a member of ‘Artists
For Conservation’ in Canada, a member of the UK Fine Art
Trade Guild and is on the Advisory Panel of the UK ‘Artists
and Illustrators’ magazine. He also one of the presiding
judges for the ‘BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2009’.
Pip McGarry is exclusively represented in London by The Colomb
Art Gallery.
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