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David Shepherd

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David Shepherd

In David's own words, "to start with, my life was a series of disasters'. Growing up in the 1930's, his one ambition was to be a game warden in Kenya and so, on leaving school, he went to Kenya and was promptly told by the National Parks people that he was not wanted. On returning to England, David was faced with two choices. One was "to drive a bus for a living'. The other was to pursue the only other possibility, which was painting. However, he admits that he had very little interest in art, prints and posters and certainly no talent, for he was promptly rejected by the Slade School of Art as "un-trainable'.

David had his first one-man show of wildlife paintings in London. The exhibition sold out in the first twenty minutes and he has not looked back since. Apart for the tremendous demand for his originals, a number of which he donates to wildlife through the David Shepherd Conservation Foundation to pay back what in his own words is "my enormous debt to the animals I paint”, his published art, prints and posters are avidly sought after.

With a full order book of commissions as far as he can see ahead since that first wildlife picture, his ambition has been not only to continue painting art, prints and posters for all those people who ask, but now, through the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation, to fulfill his passionate obligation to help so many critically endangered mammals on the brink of extinction who have done so much for him.

David Shepherd Art, Prints and Posters Collection