News – Tagged "Painting in Residencies"– Francesca Sanders Artist

Conservation Work · Painting in Residencies

Painting Underwater

Partnership with Blue Ventures conservancy, East Timor. In 2017 Francesca spent several weeks with Blue Ventures, a marine conservation group, which originally began work in Madagascar. Whilst the team of scientists and volunteers counted and documented the underwater ecosystems of...

Painting in Residencies

Gorillas in Uganda

Partnership with Abercrombie & Kent Philanthropy, Bwindi National Park Francesca was invited on a once in a lifetime field trip to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda, to study some of the remaining 800 gorillas in the wild. She also visited and...

Exhibitions · Painting in Residencies

Sky Arts Competition

Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year Francesca was chosen as one of 48 people, out of many thousand applications, to take part in the inaugural Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year in 2015. The competition was filmed and...

Painting in Residencies

Commission for British Military, Helmand province, Afghanistan

The painting was commissioned and completed in very short time scales due to the redeployment of forces on the ground and Francesca was under significant time pressure to complete the painting. She deployed to Helmand a high threat environment for...

Exhibitions · Painting in Residencies

School Mural Kenya

Partnership with Save The Elephants, Westgate School and Samburu National Park, Northern Kenya. Francesca was asked to paint a large walled area in Westgate School, on the edge of Samburu National Park, in Northern Kenya. The project was initiated by...