Geraldine Odette was brought up in Africa where she completed her education. Having lived and travelled throughout Africa, through her experiences Geraldine opens the door to the continent for us with her Art.

She is an artist specialising in oils on canvass and it all started as a hobby. The hobby continued but was put on hold by her nursing career running a baby clinic in the African bush. This gave her the ultimate opportunity in her spare time to study wild game in its natural habitat.

Drawing and painting the wildlife she observed may have started as a hobby, but due to her early success and the increasing demand for her work Geraldine became professional.

Geraldine had her own gallery in Kent and also exhibited throughout the UK in addition to West and North Africa. Her first ever “one woman exhibition” at Winchelsea was a sell out and originals are keenly sought after by collectors world wide. Several paintings have been published as limited editions.

Her work is held in private collections throughout Europe and is rapidly growing in both popularity and critical acclaim. Her paintings are collected throughout the world, including one for the former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey.

Now living in Spain, She works daily from her studio at home, spending many weeks capturing the detail in oil, resulting in incredibly realistic pieces of Wildlife Art. Visits to India and Sri Lanka have developed an insatiable love for Tigers which is reflected in her paintings of these
majestic Animals.

Geraldine portrays many of her subjects realistically but has now begun taking an exciting and rather different approach to some of her paintings. Experimenting with colour form and symbolism. These new paintings are imaginative and stylised. Some are inspired by her fascination with the colours found in nature. This gives full rein to her creativity so that each new
painting is unique.

Her use of colour evokes the heat and dust associated with the African environment. Her unique approach to the representation of exotic animal forms and their surroundings results in work of a highly individualistic nature, sensual in use of colour and form, and redolent with the aura of a wonderful land.

Ever since she can remember Geraldine has had a love of animals and nature, which has had a great influence on her becoming a wildlife Artist.

When Geraldine was interviewed at her gallery in Kent by local Television she was asked “What does painting mean to you?” Her answer? “My love and feeling for Africa and India cannot be measured. Africa will always be in my blood. My only wish is that I might convey through my paintings the preciousness of these lands and animals, that must be saved from extinction for future generations to behold”.