I have just completed this painting of a Male Amur Tiger, his name is Vladimir and he lives in a spacious enclosure in the Dartmoor Zoo with his two sisters Blotch and Stripe. I do not usually like Zoo's but after seeing a TV programme about Ben Mee and his struggle to keep and improve this zoo we went along and were impressed by it. Ben Mee has written a book "We Bought a Zoo" and recently a film has been made about it starring Matt Damon. Tigers are in drastic decline mainly through being hunted for body parts which is something we should be ashamed of and it should be stopped before there are no beautiful wild Tigers left to see. I would like to donate a percentage of the sale of this painting to this cause.
