Wildlife art -
David Shepherd - Fine art prints - Conservation pictures
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Welcome to Jamie Leigh Fine Art. We are a family run Business with a genuine love for Fine Art Limited Edition prints. We are particularly fond of David Shepherd wildlife art. We Specialise in buying and selling David Shepherd prints and have access to nearly all of his work, we have got elephant prints and conservation pictures of his work.
As a small boy, David collected books on Africa, and he had one ambition only, to be a game warden. His early career was, to quote his own words, ‘a series of disasters’. After leaving school in 1949, he went to Kenya and was politely told that he was not wanted.
He started his career as an aviation artist and owes a great deal to The Royal Air Force. Whilst never having worn a uniform they recognised his talent and started commissioning aviation paintings which involved flying all over the world with them. David freely admits that he has had some of the most exciting times with the Services, on HMS Ark Royal, going down in a submarine, and with flying in almost every type of aircraft from Harrier jump jets to V-Bombers, and the one remaining Lancaster.
It was The Royal Air Force who flew him to Kenya in 1960 for conservation pictures and this was the catalyst in his life. They commissioned his very first wildlife painting and, to quote David’s own words, " I have never looked back".
Winter of 43 Somewhere in England
It was at this same formative time in David’s life that he became a conservationist when he saw 255 dead zebra lying around a poisoned waterhole in Tanzania. Now he is internationally regarded as one of the world’s leading wildlife artists but also, because of his enormous debt that he says he owes to wildlife for what it has done for him, he is also known internationally as a leading conservationist. One of his first major fund-raising successes was with the painting ‘Tiger Fire’ which raised £127,000 for Project Tiger in 1973.
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