Artworks by Kristina Waddingham

My paintings are designed to be physically accurate depictions of the beautiful animals that are their subjects, but I also like to highlight features like the animal’s eyes, colouring or the lighting on them to enhance their natural beauty and mesmerising quality. This draws your attention to their faces beyond that first look. This draws you into their eyes and their faces on a deeper level, drawing a level of connection to the animal’s character and soul that can rarely be caught in even a photograph. For true animal lovers this can be a gift that can captivate you time and time again as you look into the painting. These are the animals that we love and have lived, or grown up, with seeing on TV as David Attenborough describes their incredible lives. This immersion into the natural world adds value and respect into our lives and that is why I find painting animals, and creating that connection to other living animals (or people), to be so valuable and important in the world today.