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Pip McGarry

Pip McGarry is a self-taught professional wildlife artist specialising in oil paintings of wildlife. He has organised and run varying and unique wildlife painting workshops for many years, lecturing and demonstrating techniques. Through his paintings he has also raised thousands of pounds for various wildlife causes, including the Dambari Field Research Station for Black Rhinos in Zimbabwe, Save The Tiger and the Epulu Okapi Game Reserve in Zaire.

Pip McGarry has travelled extensively overseas, having previously lived both in Central America and the Far East. He conducts regular field research trips abroad in order to study wildlife and habitat and has visited both Eastern and Southern Africa regularly. For the last five years he has organised and led camping safaris into the remote game reserves of Northern Botswana, visiting Moremi Nature Reserve, the Okavango Delta, Chobe National Park and Livingstone in Zambia. In September 2005 he has again organised a month long camping expedition for over twenty wildlife artists and photographers into the wilds of Northern Botswana.

Since turning professional, Pip McGarry has been the subject of several broadcasts by Meridian Television and has also featured in national newspapers and magazines. His paintings have been auctioned at each of the international Wildlife Art Auctions held by Christies and Sotheby's between 1998 and 2001, maintaining a 100% sale rate at Christies. He has won several prestigious art awards and to date he has had more than thirty paintings published as fine art editions by major UK fine art publishers. In 2003, Pip was filmed on location at Marwell Zoological Park for an hour long instructional painting video and DVD for Teaching Art Ltd, the largest producer of tutorial videos in the UK.

Meridian Television Series: 'A Brush With The Wild'
In February 2004, Pip McGarry filmed on location in Kenya and at Marwell Zoological Park with Meridian Television for a new seven part television series, 'A Brush With The Wild'. The programme was devised by Pip, was presented by Anneka Rice and featured 'Birds of a Feather' star Lesley Joseph, 'Liver Birds' star Nerys Hughes and famous comedienne Helen Lederer. The first three shows were transmitted in April 2004 and attracted top viewing figures. A further four programmes were recorded with another 'Birds of a Feather' star, Linda Robson; authoress and television personality Christine Hamilton and comedienne, journalist and author Jenny Eclair. The second series was transmitted during Xmas week and once again achieved top viewing figures.

Pip McGarry is the founder and Chairman of the Marwell International Wildlife Art Society, which is now the largest wildlife art society in Europe. He has been the 'Artist-in-Residence' at Marwell Zoological Park in Hampshire since January 1999, the first time such a position has been held there. In 2005, he formed the 'Pip McGarry Wildlife Art Company Ltd.' which unites the Marwell International Wildlife Art Society with his work as a wildlife artist. He is a member of the Fine Art Trade Guild and is an elected member of the prestigious 'Society of Animal Artists' in New York, USA.