An Artist In Africa

A lecture about art, wildlife and conservation by wildlife artist Alison Nicholls.

Alison Nicholls is a professional wildlife artist who spent 9 years living in Botswana and Zimbabwe and returns on an annual basis to sketch in the bush. She will talk about traveling and sketching in Africa, her sketching materials and how her bush sketches differ from her studio paintings. She will use photos and images of her sketches to show different habitats and species, including her work tracking and sketching highly endangered African wild dogs in Zimbabwe with the Painted Dog Conservation project. You will also see Alison’s video footage of wild dogs and an elephant calf rescue which has been featured on Animal Planet. Alison will discuss conservation issues in Africa and her 2nd Conservation Expedition in which she will visit the African People & Wildlife Fund in Tanzania this summer.

Due to the content, this lecture is suitable for adults and teenagers but not for very young children.

Examples of Alison Nicholls’ African wildlife watercolors will be exhibited in the Blue Door Gallery show, “Out of Africa” running from Feb 11 through March 13.