Explore the intimate textures of the wild captured in monochrome mastery.
About Gareth Putter
As a guide I led walks and game drives and lectured groups of schoolchildren about the bush. By twenty I was working in Big Five country, and at twenty-one I was running overland safari tours across Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia.
The bush was never a job to me. It was the place I understood myself best.
Along the way I founded Rocking For Rhinos, a music festival built to fund rhino conservation, and later managed a safari park in Oman for a member of the royal family. For a while I worked as a wildlife tattoo artist here in Hoedspruit. Then my children were born, I came home for good, and I traded the tattoo machine for charcoal and oil paint.
But the drawing had been there all along. Turning to fine art wasn't a new beginning, it was a lifelong habit finally meeting the wildlife I'd spent twenty years living among. What I draw now, I have stood next to, and that is the difference you feel in the work.
Charcoal Wildlife Prints
Each piece channels the wild’s depth through delicate shading and bold contrasts, offering a tactile connection to untamed beauty.
We craft immersive wildlife narratives through the nuanced strokes of charcoal, marrying art with nature’s raw essence.