Description
With an obvious nod to Rodin, this gentle drawing is in Derwent Art Pastel Pencils on 300gsm Snow White Daler-Rowney Canford card by conservation artist Martin Aveling who won the Environmental Artivism category at the prestigious David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year Awards (WAY) in London in 2024. Martin is a signature member of ‘Artists for Conservation’ and he coined the phrase ‘wildlife artivism’ to encourage stronger calls to actions in the creative output of working wildlife artists.
“This drawing of a pensive chimpanzee connects us back to our shared ancestry, when only 6 million years ago we were the same being.”
