The wall I painted for Save The Elephants and Elephant Watch Safaris features in the Save The Elephants 2011 Annual report. It is a fantastic charity, and it is well worth reading what they have managed to achieve in the last 12 months alone.
I held a week long exhibition at The Air Gallery, Dover St London, with the kind sponsorship of The Vintner, a fantastic new wine merchant, based in Chelsea, London. Champagne flowed merrily over four evening events, and I was much more fortunate with sales than I expe...
My final stint in East Africa has been based at Save The Elephants camp, Samburu. Here I have been working on a mammoth 12 metre wide wall at Westgate school, Samburu, in Kenya. The commission involved creating a design that would entertain and educate the children as...
In March 2011, Cottar’s camp invited Francesca to come and paint their local wildlife. Drives in the bush were arranged for her to sketch the moving world of the Mara directly from the car.
On one of these drives they were lucky enough to spot a female rhino and her cal...
Francesca was invited to return in March to Ndarakwai ranch, in West Kilimanjaro. Here she was involved in the rehabilitation of a pair of rescued Serval cats, and was able to document their habits and movements through a series of sketches and paintings.
