NEW, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

130cm x 170cm

Available

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Life Force

Many times people asked me why I hadn’t painted elephants, and my answer was I had never felt I had come up with a painting idea that would do them justice. They are noble animals with significant importance to many cultures.

This piece focuses on an organization I respect hugely – The Elephant Valley Project – in Mondulkiri. The largest elephant sanctuary in Cambodia with 1500 hectares of forest, rivers, grassland and bamboo groves for their 12 ex-working elephants to roam freely and to be elephants again.

Nearby is the Virachey National Park, where renowned Fauna & Flora International are working to survey the biodiversity and protect the wildlife and  people living within and near the park. The Red-Shanked Douc Langur featured in this painting is a critically endangered old world monkey native to Cambodia.

Their incredibly unique colouring is so outrageous I had to paint them! Supporting these organisations goes so far in protecting the incredible and often widely unknown wildlife that Cambodia still has. It’s a never ending battle between those who wish to destroy beauty and those who will dedicate their lives to preventing that from happening. This is a thank you and dedication to those people and to the incredible wildlife I thank my lucky stars we still have.

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