Etosha Heat of Day
Oil on Canvas,
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Etosha Heat of Day
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Details
Oil on Canvas
Oils on canvas
W: 1000mm x H: 750mm x D: 25mm
W: 39" x H: 30" x D: 1"
Approx. Weight: 1kg
This work is
unframed
Price
US$ 5,582
Scale
Reference
Etosha 1
About "Etosha Heat of Day"
"ETOSHA, HEAT and DUST".
Before the first Europeans came to Namibia, elephants probably only occurred in Etosha on a seasonal basis (depending on the availability of food and water). According to reports of explorers who visited the area in the 1850s, elephants were a relatively common sighting. Unfortunately, with the advent of modern firearms, things started going downhill. For the elephants the hunters and their guns proved fatal to their survival. They were shot in such large numbers that by the 1880s none were left in the area.
In 1954 a count was done to find out how many elephants there were in Etosha. They could only find a total of 26 elephants in the park. Bernab[0xC3A9] de la Bat, then chief game warden in Etosha, then devised a plan to attract elephants to the park from the Kamanjab district, where they had been causing extensive damage on the farms. A series of boreholes were sunk along the 19th latitude over a distance of 200 km, which lured hundreds of elephants into the park. By the 1980s they had increased to between 1 000 and 2000 (the result of breeding as well as migration).
Etosha's elephants are of the largest in Africa, the tallest measuring up to four metres at the shoulder. Adult bulls have a mass of between 5 500 and 6 000 kg, while the cows have about two-thirds of the mass of the bulls in the same area.
Their tusks on the other hand, are smaller than those of elephants elsewhere in Africa. This is ascribed to breakages resulting from mineral deficiencies in their diet and genetic defects. The fact that Etosha's elephants have smallish tusks is a distinct advantage, in so far as this makes them less likely to fall prey to ivory poachers.
My painting is 75cm x 100cm. It is oils on canvas. A serious painting for a serious collector.
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About Dawie
I've loved the veld and wildlife for as long as I can remember. After school and military service I worked in Air Traffic Control for two years before studying Nature Conservation. I worked in Nature conservation and veterinary research before starting a full-time career in art 35 years ago.I have maintained my involvement with conservation over the last 26 years. I have conservation projects registered at Mpumalanga Parks Board and National Parks Board.
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US$ 289-69,300
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Exhibitions
6 Solo exhibition, more than 30 group exhibitions and 6 private exhibitions including exhibitions in the USA, France, Dubai, Spain and Norway. Over the last 10 years I have, through the sale of my art, managed to donate more than $250000- to conservation.
Education
Diploma in Nature conservation and management
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