Buyer goes wild for Linda's art

A painting by Belper Artist Linda Wain has been sold for £6,000 for charity.  The money raised from the sale of Majestic Slumber will be spent on conservation work.

Linda of Blackden Close, is a nationally renowned wildlife artist best know for her pictures of Tigers.  Majestic Slumber is a 41in by 35in liquid acrylic painting of two Sumatran tigers which are critically endangered.  An anonymous Derby woman fell in love with the picture at an exhibition and bought it to hang on the wall of her home.

Linda said: "The donation and sale of the painting are very important to me, because by raising money I have helped to save an endangered and magnificent species."

Her husband, Kevin, said: When the painting was completed, it was used as the centre piece at a large formal dinner attended by Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent.  It was shown at several exhibitions where it was used to raise the public's awareness over the tigers' plight, but recently it became clear that the money was needed and urgently so it was put up for sale."

In November, Linda decided to sell some of her work to pay for the £3,000 cost of keeping a 12-year-old Siberian tigress called Ginny at the Bon Free Foundation's tiger sanctuary in Kent.

There are fewer than 500 of the species left and Ginny was rescued from squalid conditions in a Belgian zoo.

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