Graeme Arnott - Pearl Spotted Owl water colour - exceptional detail

Painting size - 225mm x 310mm Frame size 380mm x 475mm

Graeme Arnott's interest in studying and drawing wildlife developed in early boyhood growing up on a farm in the Rhodesian bush.

After attending schools in Bulawayo and Plumtree, he attended Rhodes University where he qualified with a teaching degree. Then followed ten years as a geography teacher in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). During this time he worked under the British bird painter David Reid-Henry.

ln 1975 he took up bird painting as a full-time profession illustrating bird books