Gary Hodges was born in 1954, and has had a deep love of nature since childhood. In 1979 he began to apply his keen sense of observation and his drawings is now leader of Britain's wildlife pencil artist.
He resigned from his daily work around 1989 to concentrate on his drawings and, shortly thereafter, started publishing their limited edition prints. By keeping control of all stages, from the drawing, editing, selling, Gary has never had to compromise on the very high standards it has set itself.
He is a real sincere and generous human being who cares quietly, but passionately, about the conservation of animals which it is based. Through his drawings, which has already raised its first quarter of a million pounds for charity and is well on its way to the second quarter of a million phenomenal achievement for a single person in such a short time.
Gary Hodges drawings allows out from the crowd because it combines a remarkable technical capacity with a profound sense of the subject and a sensitive understanding of their individual character. His sense of design and composition, often focusing on only one part of the animal, always leads to a surprising image that requires the viewer's attention and thought. Others have tried to achieve the same effect in the pen, but the result often appears normal by comparison.
You can use many different degrees of pencil in a drawing. For each category is put to good effect that accumulates thoroughly tones and textures, working in small areas at a time.
The variety of textures that creates difficult to hide, fluffy fur, feathers preened, dry scales, it is extraordinary. Often, there is a touch of humor to the big leg or menacing tooth, but in the end that is the eye fixed on the viewer. Here begins each drawing.
His original drawings now appear regularly at Christie's auction of Wildlife Art "Supreme" sold for £ 16.215 in 1998 and "Mother's Love" £ 10575 (double the original estimate), in May 2000.
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