Exhibitions & Events

Recent exhibitions and events

2025 Aston Martin event Raffles London

painting live the new Valhalla Hybrid

2025 Guest Artist Falklands, South Georgia for Wildlife Worldwide festival of wildlife

2024 Ferrari Meridian live painting event

2024 2023 Guest artist Wildlife Worldwide 

Serengeti

2023 Guest artist Wildlife Worldwide Zambia

2022 Festival of Wildlife Spitsbergen Arctic. Guest artist aboard Ocean Adventurer.

 

2019 ‘A Brush with Nature’ Filming a TV programme in association with Born Free in Amboseli Kenya. JT paints the world’s largest living land mammal ‘Tim’ a huge big tusker!

 

2019 Appointed ‘Artist for Conservation’ Global Ambassador 

2019 October Wildlife painting at the Lanwan museum, Quindeo, China

 

 

2018 & 2019..2 Times finalist Artist of the Year, London

2017 Life Size Big Tusker Elephant Painting sponsored by Mercedes Benz

2014 to 2017 Illustrated many travel guides he was also commissioned to write and illustrate 'How to Paint & Draw Animals” by the UK’s largest independent publisher.

2013 BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year winner Frozen Planet Category 

2013 April Art safari leader Galapagos

2013 April Cunard’s Queen Victoria Guest artist

2013 Kenya Masai Mara October

2012 Featured guest artist Cunard and P&O world cruises

2012 Artist of the year finalist

Art Safari Leader Masai Mara Kenya

Zambia, South Luangwa & Lower Zambezi

2008-2012 Mall galleries, DSWF Wildlife Artist of the Year finalist

2011-2012 Featured artist P&O/Cunard

2010 BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year winner Frozen Planet Cat.

 

2009-2018 Signed with Leading Fine Art Publisher Demontfort Fine Art

2009-2012 BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year finalist

2005-2009 South Eastern Wildlife Expo SC USA

2010 Editors Winner. Wildscape, Wildlife artist of the year, Wildscape magazine

2009 2011 Painting selected for prestigious ‘Artists for Conservation’ tour USA

2004-2012 Kenya art safari, Masai Mara.

2009 Life size Black Rhino in aid of Save the Rhino International

 

2008 ITV1 Holiday program (painting in Kenya)

Kruger NP South Africa

Dallas Safari Club exhibitor Texas

Led Art Safari Madagascar

 

2007 May Christies London

Led Art Safaris BC Canada

Animals in Action, Zambia

 

2006 Led Art Safari India, Ranthambore

5 weeks camping NP’s of Northern Botswana

 

2005 Led Art Safari Galapagos 2005 Tryon Gallery Mayfair London

2005 Galapagos Conservation Trust, Mayfair, London, England 2005 Solo Show, in conjunction with Kahna NP, India, and the IOW Zoo, UK

 

2004 Society of Animal Artists, Blauvelt Museum, New Jersey, USA

2004 Anti-poaching fundraiser art exhibit, South Luangwa, Zambia

2004 Featured artist in U.S. Wildlife Art Magazine 

2004 Sell out solo exhib 5th Avenue New York       

 

 

Contact Jonathan

Free feel to contact me at anytime!

Wildlife Artist

Original Wildlife Art from UK based Wildlife Artist Jonathan Truss, original wildlife paintings and limited edition prints.

+44 (0)7765 003309

jon@jonathantruss.com

Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom

About JT

It’s so true that nature has already created its masterpiece and all an artist has to do is copy it. That said you need a natural love of your subject if you’re going to dedicate most of your life to painting it. I always tell people paint what inspires you, as that’s what I do. I still get exited every time I put a blank canvas on the easel.

 

Prior to being an artist I was an artiste! This has been beneficial in my art career especially as guest artist aboard the fleets of Cunard and P&O as I have an almost unique talent of being able to paint whilst doing impersonations! My previous career saw me as a cabaret artiste, comedian and impersonator. Then I went on to teach myself guitar, playing an incredible 1500 professional ‘gigs’! These days I have no interest in the guitar.. it’s all about the paintbrush!

 

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