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“Coast to Mountains”Illustrated talk by Dee Doody

 
 

 
Venue: Fourcroft Hotel

Time: 2pm

Details: A look at most of the bird species from the beautiful Pembrokeshire islands (home of the Manx Shearwater and Puffin), up through the rivers, valleys and woodlands to the forests and moorlands.



Wildlife artist, wildlife cameraman, TV presenter, broadcaster and naturalist, Diarmid (Dee) Doody was born and brought up amongst the wildlife of South Africa where he developed his passion for nature and the big cats. He came to Britain from Southern Africa at the age of eight and raised his three children in mid Wales.

In the 1980s he worked for the RSPB, and is one of the foremost experts on the red kite. He has worked hard for over 25 years to protect this magnificent bird and helped, along with others, to bring it back from the brink of extinction to its current status in Wales. He also raised and released the very first kites back into the Highlands of Scotland in 1989.
Dee has painted wildlife images for some twenty years and has concentrated primarily on the subjects closest to his heart. The big cats are without question his favourite subject, but Dee paints wildlife from polar bears in the Arctic to elephants on the plains of Africa.
Dee's works are very detailed and are painted in either watercolour on pure rag paper, or oils or acrylics for the larger images, such as tigers.
As well as painting to commission, he has over the years found time to be the presenter of twenty four natural history documentaries and is also a respected wildlife cameraman. He was asked recently to introduce ITV's major wildlife series ‘Extinct’ for Wales, with Trevor MacDonald and David Suchet.
A busy man!!

   
Admission: £6 - to include tea
   
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