With a six month old panda in a wildlife hospital in China more

Sketching a snow leopard cub in a breeding project

With an orphaned tiger cub

Sketching Angel the Barn owl

Anna-Louise was presented with an orphaned sloth bear cub as a 21st birthday gift in India....

....you can read his incredible story, and see Pollyanna's sketches of him in the book 'The Eye of the Tiger'

Painting Toby the fox cub - he was subsequently successfully rehabilitated into the wild by Pollyanna.

With an orphaned badger cub

Pollyanna and a rescued bald eagle take a good look at each other at the National Eagle Centre in Minnesota. One of them will go on to paint the other.....

Anna-Louise with Ralph the squirrel - reared and released from Pollyanna's sanctuary

Pollyanna with a barn owl in her bird hospital

Pollyanna with a rescued bobcat in a sanctuary in Colorado

With a Lanner Falcon

With a reindeer in Lapland.....

......and a quarter horse on a ranch in Montana

..........and with a very friendly llama!

Pollyanna and Anna-Louise (left) riding in Colorado.

Anna-Louise with a baby barn owl being handreared in the bird hospital

Anna-Louise gets an extreme close-up of a lemur!.....

who then carefully inspects her camera.

Pollyanna with a gyr falcon

With an Indian Elephant.....

........and a tame samba deer in India

A tusker elephant lifts Pollyanna off the ground

Pollyanna with a Giant tortoise in Africa...

.....and a very very tiny one!

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Anna-Louise with a rescued badger....

....and befriending a wild deer in the Rocky Mountain National Park

Anna-Louise converses with a cockatiel

Pollyanna meets a lamb on a local farm.....

.....and Anna-Louise demonstrates her ferret handling skills.....!

Anna-Louise feeds a baby panda in the wildife hospital in China.

In Close Contact

Pollyanna with a young tawny owl being reared in her wildife hospital

Pollyanna's work as a wildlife artist has brought her into remarkably close contact with many birds and animals over the years. She has always believed that sketching animals from life brings a unique realism and vitality to her work, allowing her to capture the character of her subjects.

For fifteen years she ran a licensed registered hospital for birds of prey, caring for and rehabiliting hundreds of patients back into the wild. During this time she also cared for foxes, squirrels, hares, hedghogs, garden birds and many more creatures. Through her charitable Foundation she has supported and visited many more wildlife sancturies, both in the UK and worldwide, and has taken the opportunity to meet and paint the animals in their care.

She has also travelled the world to paint exotic species in their natural habitats, sometimes coming very close to her subjects! She comments "When I travel I am able to experience the natural world in all its beauty, danger and drama. It is only through this first hand study of animals and their habitats that I am able to paint in a way which communicates my love and respect for our remarkable, awe-inspiring but ultimately fragile world." Pollyanna's daughter and business partner Anna-Louise travels with her to record the expeditions photographically.

On this page you can see a small selection of photos of Pollyanna with the animals she loves.

With Angel the barn owl - a permanent resident at Pollyanna's sanctuary.

At a cheetah sanctuary in South Africa

With a Red Fox in her wildife hospital

With a resident arctic fox in a wildlife sanctuary in Canada

With Zooberon the kestrel - read his amazing story in the book 'A Brush with Wildife'.

With a raccoon in a wildife sanctuary in North America

Sketching Angel the Barn owl for the BBC documentary 'Made in England'

Sketching in Transylvania - as a wolf looks on!

Sketching a tiger in a big cat sanctuary........

.....while Anna-Louise helps to treat one of the patients - a tiger suffering from disptemper, which is usually fatal in big cats. We are pleased to say this tiger made a full recovery.

Painting Mozart the Eagle owl at the National Bird of Prey Centre

With Henry the dove - handreared by Pollyanna from a few days old.

Pollyanna examines an injured tawny owl brought into her bird hospital.

With Princess the Harris's Hawk......

.....who likes to be the star of the show!

Princess (and Pollyanna!) being interviewed by Keith Chegwin on BBC1 children's programme Saturday Superstore!

Hands on care - Feeding a Highland Cow at an animal sanctuary.

Sketching red deer from life for BBC2's Nature's Calendar

....and sketching the donkeys in her own paddock..........

........and Riff-Raff a rescued tawny owl in her sanctuary.

Three orphaned tawny owlets in Pollyanna's bird hospital

Painting a young tawny owl from life

Even domestic animals are sketched from life - Pollyanna with a westi!

Even from her earliest days as a wildife artist Pollyanna appreciated the value of sketching from life -she is seen here painting flamingoes at a wildlife park in 1972.

Anna-Louise with a cheetah in a big cat sanctuary

Anna-Louise with a red fox.

Anna-Louise feeds a giraffe in Africa.