The Into Africa Exhibition by Louise Luton at Fisherton Mill Salisbury

Everything in this collection was inspired by safari in Kenya last year.
We stayed at the wonderful Of- beat Mara camp which is situated in the North Conservancy on the Masai Mara. Our Masai guides knew every inch of the area and were able to take us to the most amazing places. The animals are used to the jeeps and rarely react to them, though they would have done if we had hopped out of the jeep! This enabled us to get amazingly close, some days I could have reached out and touched a lion.. Don't worry; I didn't!
I kept a sketchbook while I was on the Mara and I've created a book of my sketches.
I continue to paint inspired by my travels, my sketchbooks and my now huge photo collection!