Shipping the art is not included in the sale price. The item/items will be shipped directly from the artist. This is to mitigate damage to the art in transit. The majority of our artists are UK based, however, many are from South Afracica, Europe and the USA.
Once the art is purchased, the artist will contact you to arrange shipping and to make arrangements for the shipping payment. They are also happy to chat and answer any questions you might have.
Please take note that there may be import/export costs payable for international deliveries.
If you wish to discuss anything before purchasing art, please contact us via the live watsapp chat button or email [email protected].
Lesley has lived in the Aberdeen area all her life. Originally a graphic designer, she worked in the oil industry until deciding to ‘go it alone’ in 1996. Since then Lesley has developed an enthusiastic fan base who love her lifelike sculptures and striking animal portraits. As a youngster, Lesley would often find and study unfortunate road casualties and compare them with human anatomy drawings, this way she learned how the bone and muscle structures worked and was able to sketch many animals from her new found knowledge and memory. She still employs this method today explaining “It’s a spontaneous way of working that suits my personality.”
Lesley’s preferred medium is oil on canvas though she also works with acrylic and watercolour as well as creating lifelike ceramic animal sculptures.
Lesley is involved with several wildlife organisations and as a trustee for Blankets for Baby Rhinos she actively contributes and fundraises personally and through the sale and donations of her artworks. Her work is available in several of Scotland’s leading galleries and is collected internationally. This year Lesley was a finalist in the DSWF Wildlife Artist of the Year Awards 2022 with her walrus sculpture “Sunkissed”, this piece has now since sold.
The reason for assessing this species as Near Threatened and not Least Concern continues to be the continued and high poaching threat and illegal demand for horn in SE Asia (especially Viet Nam and China), increased involvement of organised international criminal syndicates in rhino poaching (see Emslie
et al. (2019)
http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/156/1560170144.pdf for further details). Protection efforts depend on significant Range State expenditure and effort, and if these were to decline rampant poaching could seriously threaten numbers (well in excess of 30% over three generations). Declining state budgets for conservation in real terms, declining capacity in some areas and increasing arrests of Southeast Asians for rhino crimes in African Range States are all of concern. Estimated White Rhino numbers have declined 15% from 2012–17 in response to increased poaching. This decline has largely been because of a major decline in the largest subpopulation in Greater Kruger due to poaching. While absolute numbers poached in this park continue to decline, so have White Rhino numbers with the result that in relative terms poaching has remained at unsustainable levels. Fortunately, White Rhino numbers have been increasing in many other populations and since White Rhino poaching peaked in 2014 it has declined in response to considerably increased law enforcement and protection efforts. Reported poaching in the major Range State South Africa is also down in 2019. While the White Rhino is close to having less than 10,000 mature individuals, it would not meet any other of the additional criteria under C1 or C2.
In summary the rationale for treating White Rhino as Near Threatened and not Least Concern is that in the numbers could decline significantly in the absence of, or significant reduction of current conservation measures. Despite White Rhino point estimates declining by an estimated 15% from 2012–17, numbers are nowhere near reaching critical thresholds under criteria A2 or A4 (see Figures 4 and 5 and Tables 4 and 5 in the attached Supplementary Information document). Recorded White Rhino poaching has been declining since 2014.
SOURCE: IUCN REDLIST
