ARTWORK DESCRIPTION:

Derek Robertson has been a professional wildlife artist for over 35 years. His watercolour “What We Carry With Us – Albatross” is a weaving of topics around plastics, chemical pollution and over-fishing. The great albatrosses that travel the furthest reaches of the ocean carry plastics and chemicals that are our casually discarded legacy to the biosphere. This huge watercolour is part of Derek’s major project ‘Testaments of Loss’ depicting incidents of environmental loss.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:

Derek Robertson has been a professional wildlife artist for over 35 years. He also produces narrative artwork that engages environmental and social issues, often collaborating with scientists and creative partners on very ambitious projects. He has illustrated and written many books and featured in the press, radio and appeared on television as both a writer and presenter. He exhibits around the world and his work is held in collections in more than 50 countries including those of the British Royal Family, The Tate Gallery, The Scotland Office in London and the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum.