Echo Project

The Art of BAS is working with The Elephant Trust (Amboseli Trust for Elephants, www.elephantrust.org), having spent time with their researchers in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Cynthia Moss is the world's foremost elephant expert and she works tirelessly in the field with her equally dedicated team. Echo is a well know matriarch of one of the Amboseli herds, she has become famous through several BBC documentaries over the years. Now in her senior years, Echo has been taken to heart by many and has given the researchers the most intimate portrayal of elephant behavior, welcoming them into the life of her herd.

Funds raised through the sales of BAS' Echo painting, "Echo of Amboseli", and Fine Art Canvas Limited Edition will directly aid The Elephant Trust (Amboseli Trust for Elephants) and their invaluable work amongst African elephants in particular. The African elephant, as with her Asian cousins, are experiencing unprecedented pressures from mankind and are suffering in many ways. Let's hope that the future is bright for these magnificent creatures, our largest land mammal, that has such a big hearted and gentle nature. The Echo painting and Fine Art Canvas Limited Editions are now available and we trust that the collectors support will greatly assist the work of The Elephant Trust (Amboseli Trust for Elephants).

There are new Conservation Projects soon to be undertaken by The Art of BAS, please review the Conservation Projects section on The Art of BAS website to read about them and join us in whatever way you are able to in supporting the plight of wildlife and nature around this fragile globe.

Echo of Amboseli.

This is a photograph that I took of some of Amboseli's elephants, they are a part of Echo's family.

Eighteen months ago I visited Kenya for the specific purpose of seeing the world's most well known elephant - Echo. She's the matriarch of a herd within Amboseli National Park, at the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro. The BBC have filmed several documentaries about Echo and her family, the most recent film showed her giving birth to her youngest calf, Espirit. Now at the grand old age of late sixties Echo continues to b a remarkable lady, holding the family together through the changes of time.

It was a special opportunity to be with Echo and an added privilege since I was able to spend some time with the researchers of Amboseli Trust for Elephants (Elephant Trust) who have followed Echo and the many other elephant herds of Amboseli for over thirty years. Their indepth studies have been at the fore of elephant research and are invaluable to aid the future well being of this magnificent creature of the African plains.

How wonderful it is to be able to move amongst the herd accepted as one of them, albeit in the safety of a 4x4 landcruiser! My time gathering reference material was rewarding and enabled me to create an oil painting entitled "Echo of Amboseli", the proceeds of the original and Limited Edition reproductions will assist the dedicated work of the Trust. Very soon the painting will be displayed on my website and I trust it will greatly benefit the Elephants of Amboseli and further afield.