Dr. Jeremy Paul

Travelled to Botswana in October for a camping safari organised by fellow artst Pip McGarry and run by the Elephant Trails Safari Company (www.elephanttrails.com). We travelled from Maun to Moremi in the Okavango Delta, then on to the Khwai Conservancy area, Savute, Chobe River and ending at Victoria Falls.

Game viewing was exceptional with amazing views of African hunting dogs, cheetah, elephant, lioness with cub in a tree, and a most spectacular time watching a very co-operative leopard hunting and posing.

Will be starting on the paintings shortly!

Presentation of the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year awards at Marwell House, Hampshire.

With Sophie Stafford (Editor BBC Wildlife Magazine) and Mark Carwardine (zoologist/TV presenter)

I am exibiting three paintings in the 2011 NEWA exhibition which takes place at Gordale, Wirral July15 – 31st. See www.newa-uk.com

For the second year running Jeremy has won a category in the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year. This year the Painting of a Wandering Albatross has won the Frozen Planet section and another painting – Autumn Glow – Whooper Swans – was runner up in the Wildlife in its environment section.

Three paintings have been selected for final judging for BBC Wildlife Artist of the year 2011. I have two in the ‘frozen planet’ category and one in the ‘wildlife in its environment’. Only 100 paintings have been chosen out of over 1000 entries. Final judging and announcement of winning paintings takes place next month

Two paintings have been chosen for the final exhibition and awards evening for the David Shepherd Wildlife artist of the year. Antarctic Prions – Southern Ocean and Tiger at Dawn. The exhibition is at the Mall Galleries London, June 6 – 11th

I have just completed a set of six paintings to be used for the Isle of Man Christmas stamps for 2011.

The series ‘Birds in Winter’ will be available in November and include the Waxwings shown here. The originals will be shown at my exhibition at the Sayle Gallery.

Am ‘artist in residence’ at ‘Nature in Art’ Twigworth, Gloucester all next week (12th 17th April). Will be painting in the studio and will have about 10 new paintings on show. Do come and say hello if you are in the area.

see www.nature-in-art.org for details

The Mountain clothing co have produced a new series of t shirts with my images of  big cats, polar bear and owls. Take a look at www.themountain.me

It has always been one of my secret ambitions (very sad one I know) to see one of my paintings or prints on a wall in the background of some TV programme. I can now cross this one off. I was recently watching a BBC programme about John Constable (The secret lives of Artists) when they visited Spring Grove House near Bewdley- the home of Constable’s future wife’s family- and there in the hall was my painting of a white tiger – clearly viewed as the camera panned round. The painting was commissioned by the West Midland Safari Park who now occupy the grounds and house. This programme was made in 2003 and sadly the house and painting were destroyed in a major fire in 2005 – so it was good to see the original again (a print is still available JP16).