Exhibition of Wildlife Paintings by Jeremy Paul (BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year - Category winner) Friday 4 November – Sunday 27 November 2011 Sayle Gallery, Villa Marina Colonnade, Douglas An exhibition of new paintings by Colby wildlife artist Jeremy Paul opens at the Sayle Gallery in Douglas on Friday November 4th. It is two years since Jeremy’s last exhibition on the Island, but in the intervening period he has twice won a category in the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year competition - the UK’s premier wildlife art competition. In 2010 a painting of an otter ’Islands’ which was shown at his last Isle of Man exhibition won the ‘British Mammals’ category and this year a painting of a Wandering Albatross in the Southern Ocean won the ‘frozen planet’ category. A second painting, of whooper swans, was runner up in the ‘Animals in their environment’ category. These paintings will form part of the current exhibition. Jeremy’s paintings have also been exhibited in David Shepherd’s ‘Art for Survival’ exhibition in London and The National Exhibition of Wildlife Art in Liverpool. The new exhibition will include 40 new paintings - both local and more exotic - some of which will also be available as prints. Also included will be the 6 paintings used for the Island’s Christmas stamps for this year. These are a series called ‘Birds in Winter’ and are inspired by garden birds and the hard - but beautiful - winters we have had in the last two years. “The show also includes paintings from trips to Africa, India and the polar regions (I have actually just returned from a two week camping trip to Botswana with 10 other artists). However I still probably do more paintings of local wildlife from the Island. Indeed I have had some of my greatest success with local images including paintings selected for the prestigious’Birds in Art ’ in the USA” explains Jeremy. “I work in acrylics, building up layers of paint very gradually to give the final effect of depth, tone. It is often assumed that I use very fine brushes, but this is not the case - the bulk of the work is done with fairly large brushes (including house painter’s brushes) and I only use fine brushes in the later stages. Painting is all about illusion - producing a realistic image that has depth on a flat surface.” The exhibition is sponsored by KPMG ENDS