Cumbria-based Marianne Birkby will be the Artists for Conservation’s chosen Artist of the Day next week. 

Headline feature on the Artists for Conservation website will be Marianne's oil painting, "Dodo and Sparrow."

This painting was inspired by the award winning reconstruction of the iconic Dodo at Kendal Museum.  The oil painting depicts the Dodo looking to the future while the 'common' sparrow is looking over her shoulder to the past.

The Artists for Conservation Foundation is a non-profit, nternational organization dedicated to the celebration and preservation of the natural world.

Based in Vancouver, Canada, the Foundation represents the world's leading collective of artists focused on nature and wildlife, with a membership spanning five continents and twenty-seven countries. The organization's mission is to support wildlife and habitat conservation, biodiversity, sustainability and environmental education through art that celebrates our natural heritage".

http://www.natureartists.com/marianne_birkby.asp

Marianne is an English wildlife artivist inspired by the stunning diversity of Mother Earth.

Actively speaking up for wildlife – Marianne founded Radiation Free Lakeland in 2008 following Cumbria County Council's
"expression of interest" in a high level nuclear waste dump and new build.

Following a request from Marianne, in January, Marta Adams –the Chief Deputy Attorney General at the Nevada Attorney General’s Office spoke on Radio Cumbria urging Cumbria County Council not to rely on information from Government and the nuclear industry but to take independent advice on the implications of a nuclear dump in the Lake District.

A vigorous 20 year campaign by Nevada state authorities has stopped the proposed nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain. Marianne said “this contrasts starkly with our Cumbrian Council Leaders who have willingly offered the Lake District up as a nuclear sacrifice zone despite geological ‘disposal’ being the worst possible option for looking after nuclear waste”

In Marianne's artworks various media are used to make marks from the wild spontaneity of charcoal to the almost obsessive detail of watercolour.

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