About the Gallery

The World Land Trust gallery in Halesworth, Suffolk is a commercial space exhibiting wildlife and landscape art, and aims to attract contemporary artists, as well as offering a wide range of decorative and highly collectable original art and prints.

The World Land Trust (WLT) is an international conservation organisation, founded in 1989, whose Patrons are Sir David Attenborough and David Gower. WLT's purpose is to protect some of the world's most biologically important habitats working through overseas project partners. The purpose of the gallery is to promote a wide range of wildlife art while raising funds to further WLT's urgent work.

What you will see in the Gallery

The Inaugural exhibition featured a diverse selection of modern art, and had, as its central guest, Jason Gathorne-Hardy, whose strong precise lines of domestic animals and wildlife appeal to everyone who like their animals up close. Other featured artists include Andrew Squire, Andrew Halsen, and Bruce Pearson, as well as prize winning photographer Joe Bunni and Ortaire de Coupigny reproduces fishes in elaborate ways.

Examples of Bruce Pearson's Illustrations in "Rare Mammals of the World"

The gallery also has a selection of very interesting and decorative nineteenth century hand painted prints from scientific publications, illustrated with lithographs and engravings. There are prints by "Johnny" Millais, the son of the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais, a notable naturalist and wildlife artist. Complementing these collections is a unique stock of the original watercolour illustrations by Bruce Pearson for books, entitled "Rare Mammals of the World", Collins Gem Guide to Wild Animals and Collins Gem Guide to Zoo Animals.

Also for sale are some highly collectable prints by Henry Bradbury of ferns, created using the Auer method. This technique of nature printing involved pressing the fern between a steel sheet and a soft lead sheet, and then printing from the impression left in the lead. However, because the lead was soft only relatively few impressions could be printed and these were subsequently hand coloured. Henry Bradbury printed only two volumes before his death in 1860, one on British Seaweeds and the other on Ferns.

How the gallery supports conservation

A minimum of 35% of all sales will go to WLT to help support its conservation projects. While the aim is to provide a commercial space for artists to sell their work, with the commission coming to WLT, some artists have generously donated their artwork, meaning that WLT will receive the full sale price of the piece.

If you feel your work might be suitable for the World Land Trust gallery or would like to donate a piece to be exhibited, please contact the manager, Jenny Chattington.

The gallery is currently looking for volunteers to assist in the day-to-day running. To find out more and to apply click here.

How to pay for artwork

Online payment is currently not available. Please telephone us on 01986 874422, or fill in our online form for details on how to pay, and post and packaging costs.