AN exhibition of wildlife paintings and drawings, including many never before seen in public, by popular local artist Terence Lambert has started at MOMA, Machynlleth.

Terence’s career was launched in the early 70s with his illustrations for the Collins Books of British Birds and he was quickly recognised as an important new talent in the world of ornithological painting.

Past projects have taken him on expeditions across the Himalayas, Africa, and North America and to Oman where he was commissioned to produce six major paintings for the Sultan of Oman.

Other major collectors include the McCartneys and the Astor family.

His work has also been selected for many of the world’s most prestigious wildlife exhibitions, including The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin, USA and the inaugural show of the Society of Wildlife Art for the Nation at the Guildhall in London.

In 1999 the Welsh Arts Council funded a major retrospective Exhibition that travelled throughout Wales.

He says: “The Surrey countryside was my playground, my countryman father, my guide. Like all children before me, I collected everything that nature had discarded, feathers, bones, butterflies and eggs, all lovingly catalogued in scrapbooks and shoeboxes and stashed under my bed."

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