In the following years, Davids popularity grew and he quickly became the celebrated artist and conservationist for which he is remembered today. His paintings of tigers from India helped launch tiger conservation projects two decades ago. Not long after this, in the Serengeti National park in Tanzania, he came across the corpses of 225 poisoned zebras, the macabre handiwork of a poaching gang. One such trip was to change his life. Copyright 1995-2022 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Please call Sue on 01590 681683 or e-mail Adult Coloring Book: 40 Purrtastic Cats (Domestic Animals Coloring Books For Adults Coloring Books For Adults Volume 1: 40 Stress Relieving And Relaxing Patterns (1) ( Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. paintings shepherd david elephant african wildlife animal asian animals walk elephants portraits safari Something went wrong. //--> David Shepherd CBE (1931-2017) was born in London and renowned in Britain & internationally for his magnificent paintings of wildlife & big game and he would go on to become ones of the world's most prominent protectors of them. David Shepherd, internationally known artist and deeply committed conservationist, first learnt about Africa from books about the big game hunters of the 1930's. In 1984, David set up the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation in order to repay his debt to the animals that had given him so much success as an artist. Over the years, the two strands of David's life were to unite ever more strongly.