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Welcome!
Welcome to Vic Bearcroft’s workshop site, where you can find details on upcoming private workshops in the UK, USA & Canada, art club workshops and demonstrations, private tuition, fine art galleries, art supplies, DVD’s featuring on the Painting & Drawing channel and much more.
Vic Bearcroft is a self-taught professional wildlife and pet portrait artist, who specialises in pastel on velour, but also works in pencil, watercolour, coloured pencil, charcoal and acrylic media. Having spent part of his childhood in Kenya, Vic has been drawing animals since he could hold a pencil. Being passionate about wildlife in general - particularly wolves - enables Vic to work with a large number of animal welfare and conservation organisations worldwide, donating prints, merchandise and funds.
‘While I consider myself to be a wildlife artist, I prefer to paint close up intimate portraits of animals as individuals, rather than in landscape settings. My aim is to capture not only the likeness of the subject in my painting, but also the life and soul in its eyes. To me, eyes are the most important aspect of a portrait – human or animal. People tell me they can see my paintings come to life through the eyes. My preferred medium is pastels on velour paper, which allows me to create both softness and detailed textures in my paintings.’
Winning best in show at his first ever wildlife art exhibition, Vic has gone on to win further awards for his work, released a DVD series, and is requested to travel the UK for art club demonstrations and workshops.
Vic’s workshops have proved so popular that the first international events are planned for 2011 in the USA & Canada.
Vic also shows his work at several wildlife art exhibitions, including Marwell, NEWA & TWASI, and has shown at Christies in London for the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation. From his original paintings, a large and growing portfolio of limited and open edition prints are available directly through Vic, and also at a wide and growing number of galleries and individuals in the UK and internationally. Vic constantly receives comments on how life-like his work is, and it is often mistaken for photographs.
In 2007, Vic started workshops at the UK Wolf Conservation Trust in Berkshire and the Wildlife Heritage Foundation in Kent, where 40% from all workshop proceeds is donated to the organisations. To date, thousands of pounds have been raised for these groups in funds from the workshops and auction of prints. Being a qualified teacher is an added bonus for teaching people new skills in painting and drawing.
Vic also visits the California Wolf Center every October for Wolf Awareness Week, and raises funds through print sales and auctions.
If you would like to ask any questions about Vic’s paintings, prints, workshops and club demo’s and workshops, please visit the contact page.
If you are interested in receiving details about Vic’s planned book, please email: vicbearcroft@tiscali.co.uk, or join the mailing list on the contact page.
Visit us at:
Welcome to Vic Bearcroft’s workshop site, where you can find details on upcoming private workshops in the UK, USA & Canada, art club workshops and demonstrations, private tuition, fine art galleries, art supplies, DVD’s featuring on the Painting & Drawing channel and much more.
Vic Bearcroft is a self-taught professional wildlife and pet portrait artist, who specialises in pastel on velour, but also works in pencil, watercolour, coloured pencil, charcoal and acrylic media. Having spent part of his childhood in Kenya, Vic has been drawing animals since he could hold a pencil. Being passionate about wildlife in general - particularly wolves - enables Vic to work with a large number of animal welfare and conservation organisations worldwide, donating prints, merchandise and funds.
‘While I consider myself to be a wildlife artist, I prefer to paint close up intimate portraits of animals as individuals, rather than in landscape settings. My aim is to capture not only the likeness of the subject in my painting, but also the life and soul in its eyes. To me, eyes are the most important aspect of a portrait – human or animal. People tell me they can see my paintings come to life through the eyes. My preferred medium is pastels on velour paper, which allows me to create both softness and detailed textures in my paintings.’
Winning best in show at his first ever wildlife art exhibition, Vic has gone on to win further awards for his work, released a DVD series, and is requested to travel the UK for art club demonstrations and workshops.
Vic’s workshops have proved so popular that the first international events are planned for 2011 in the USA & Canada.
Vic also shows his work at several wildlife art exhibitions, including Marwell, NEWA & TWASI, and has shown at Christies in London for the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation. From his original paintings, a large and growing portfolio of limited and open edition prints are available directly through Vic, and also at a wide and growing number of galleries and individuals in the UK and internationally. Vic constantly receives comments on how life-like his work is, and it is often mistaken for photographs.
In 2007, Vic started workshops at the UK Wolf Conservation Trust in Berkshire and the Wildlife Heritage Foundation in Kent, where 40% from all workshop proceeds is donated to the organisations. To date, thousands of pounds have been raised for these groups in funds from the workshops and auction of prints. Being a qualified teacher is an added bonus for teaching people new skills in painting and drawing.
Vic also visits the California Wolf Center every October for Wolf Awareness Week, and raises funds through print sales and auctions.
If you would like to ask any questions about Vic’s paintings, prints, workshops and club demo’s and workshops, please visit the contact page.
If you are interested in receiving details about Vic’s planned book, please email: vicbearcroft@tiscali.co.uk, or join the mailing list on the contact page.
Visit us at: