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Colin is a professional artist working in oils from
his home studio at Christchurch, Dorset, England, producing paintings of Wildlife, Landscape, Equestrian, Still life
and Marine subjects. His first job after leaving school was working in a boat yard ,then as a poster writer and
sign writer including illustration work for cinemas etc. A redundancy payment enabled him to turn his appreciation
of fine art into a career. Since then he has been elected a full member of The Royal Miniature Society and an
associate member of the Society of Equestrian Artists. He has exhibited and sold paintings with the Royal Society
of Marine Artists, The National Exhibition of Wildlife Art, Liverpool, The Marwell International Wildlife Art Society,
Not the Turner Prize in the Mall Galleries, The World Exhibition of Fine Art, Smithsonian Gallery, Washington, D.C.
and has had exhibitions at the Peter Hedley Galleries, Wareham. Colin has sold pictures and won awards with the
Royal Miniature Society at the Mall Galleries and Westminster Hall, London, The Hilliard Society, The Llewellyn Alexander
Galleries, London, The Laing Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, The Landscape Painters of the Isle of Wight Exhibition.
At the time of writing Colin is working on a collection of wildlife paintings including elephants, lions, cheetahs,
leopards, cape buffalo, bateleur eagle, lilac breasted roller, white rhino ,using reference gathered on a camping safari travelling through
northern Botswana, including the Moremi game reserve and Savute in the Chobe national park travelling by boat on the Chobe
river and through the Okavango delta and more recently a safari through Tanzania including Lake Manyara, the Nogorongoro Crater,
Arusha National Park and the Serengeti.
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