BBC Awards Presentation
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)
BBC WILDLIFE ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2011- CATEGORY WINNER
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.
BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2011 – Finalist
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
David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation Wildlife Artist of the Year 2011
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
TV appearance (of a painting, not 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).
Czech National TV
It’s a strange world – Yesterday (July 4th) I was filmed and interviewed for a travel/documentary series by Czech TV. The film crew were on the Island making a series about the way of life here and asked to visit a working artist – so were sent to me. It is due to be shown (in the Czech Republic) in September. They are going to send me a link whe it is available.
LINK NOW AVAILABLE
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/1185966822-na-ceste/
click on OSTROV MAN in the programme box on the right – it is an interesting portrait of the IOM – I am about 9 mins in.