Artist creates works to help protect African wildlife
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- 22 Sep 2022
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Acclaimed artist Katherine Hughes has created a series of new paintings of wildlife to help protect Africa’s remaining natural ecosystems and the animals they contain.
The works, which include an elephant and a secretary bird, will be unveiled at a private art viewing at London’s ICA Gallery on 8th September. Donations from the opening night of the exhibition and proceeds from their sale of works will go to international conservation charity Space for Giants.
From the land to the sea, Africa is home to kingdoms of biodiversity inhabited by some of the planet’s most endangered species. Katherine, who grew up in Tanzania, says; “we share the world with nature, and I want to do everything I can to create as much awareness of the urgent need to protect wildlife to ensure a healthy planet for us all.
“My greatest influence is the natural beauty and wildlife of Tanzania. I’m lucky enough to have spent time growing up in some of the most remote and wild environments imaginable to man. Seeing the troubling changes that have happened to the natural world, I want to work with charities to help conservation projects.”
Between 2009 and 2015 more than 60% of Tanzania’s elephant population was massacred by ivory poachers.
Since then, years of committed conservation work by the government and NGOs has helped Tanzania halt the worst of the poaching. Elephant numbers have risen from 43,000 in 2014 to 60,000 in 2019. Read More…
