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'A Brush with the Wild'
Big Cats and African Game Paintings from
Pip McGarry, one of the world’s leading wildlife artists.
Now Finished
A Major solo exhibition at The Colomb Art Gallery, London.
VIEW ALL AVAILABLE WORK FROM PIP MCGARRY >>
Auction hosted by 
All proceeds from the painting auctioned at The Private View evening
and a percentage of all exhibition sales was donated to the Five
Talents microfinance charity.
'A Brush with the Wild’ is in partnership
with ‘Five Talents’, the microfinance
charity - creating jobs in Africa and the developing world.
Winner of the City of London Sustainable City Awards 2008.
See below for details.
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 paintings have been
successfully sold by Christies and Sotheby’s at their international
auctions, with some achieving record prices. Many of his paintings
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. For all available art work click
here.
High resolution images are available on request.
‘A Brush with the Wild’ is in partnership
with ‘Five Talents’, the microfinance
charity - creating jobs in Africa and the developing world.
Five Talents empowers the active poor in developing countries with
small loans and business training – helping entrepreneurs
to start or expand a successful business.
Our motto is “Fighting poverty, creating jobs, transforming
lives” – using microfinance to give people a hand-up
out of poverty rather than a hand-out.
Five Talents is the Overall Winner of the City of London Sustainable
City Awards 2008
For more details about Five Talents please visit www.fivetalents.org.uk
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